Identity Politics is never about equality or justice. It is always about finding ways to tilt the playing field. It is about ways to hamstring people who are not a member of the identity group in order to get an advantage, payback, or handout. Think about the outcry if we had:
National Association for the Advancement of White PeoplePlease do not take the above as anything other than an observation on the state of the nation today. I don't want ANY group to be favored in the distribution of services, or the right to compete. I believe that All Men are Created Equal (yes, women too), and do NOT believe that "some are more equal than others".
National Organization for Men
New White Panther Party
"Historically White Colleges"
Congressional White Caucus
Straight-rights lobby
White American Legal Defense and Education Fund
National Council of La Raza Blanco
All of you race hustlers, interest group panhandlers, and identity hucksters need to go get honest work doing something productive. Leave the rest of us to work out our differences normally without inflaming the rhetoric to suit your ends. The Nation will be better off without you.
Pax,
Newbius
4 comments:
Thank you. Well put, sir.
Do you think that a White Male who admitted to racial discrimination 20 something years ago (even if it lead to 'enlightenment) would be offered his job back?
Identity Politics is never about equality or justice. It is always about finding ways to tilt the playing field.
At one point, there was the ideal of 'leveling' the playing field, sadly that hasn't been the case for many many years
Well Said Sir
Newbius, you did a much better job articulating my position on this than I ever could.
Keep up the good work!
If we did it in english it would be the uber-offensive "National Council of The White Race."
I guess it is OK to have an organization for "The Race"* so long as it's not whitey doing it.
The tour de france can probably call itself "The Race" without offending anybody.
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