Identity politics double standard: evil to self-indulge while there's starving kids in Africa, but extravagant performance of identity is ok
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. to paraphrase Whitman, "I am large, I contain hypocrisies." Or Emerson, "Single standards are the hobgoblin of the small mind."
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hehe, yes. People who are able to shrink to smaller identities don't realize that that is a privilege normally
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Of course it should be expanded. I'm pointing out it can't be shrunk easily for all as easily as for him.
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Ironically, his "founders with accents" comment is an example of why... that's an element of identity you can't shrink.
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The hypocritical part in performed identities is the urge to expand it theatrically/narcissistically rather than shrink.
