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I’ll dig my hole, here: progressivism attached to identity politics can’t absolve either, because nobody can free themselves from wrongs associated with skin tone or gender. We don’t operate well without forgiveness/absolution; power via guilt is never stablehttps://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1028688344425717761 …
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It is a fine balance between going around in complete happy go lucky denial of the existence of bias and spending so much time with a finger in the air that you forget to breathe.
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(1) Let/help people come to acceptance of who they are/where they come from/how they identify (2) Help those around you when the need is real & you’re capable (3) Encourage them to reach for the sources of meaning they’re afraid of Demo-based politics only hinders
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you are correct In fact, the only thing anyone ever needed to do to peel off the majority of scared people huddling together in identity activism was to tone down the actual bigotry just like say 20%. just a little It's spectacular how hard it's been for anyone to pull that off
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as it happens I think rationalism is most of the way there but, like, for example, scott alexander left a comment on free northerner's blog in 2013 that said "as it happens, i'm a bit racist myself" if he could have just gone with "none racist" instead. if only
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I'll go one further and say that the original sin of anglophone culture is holding onto the concept of sin, but abandoning every institution that might offer absolution.
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Those who do not learn the lessons of religion are doomed to reinvent it poorly.
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