The culmination of identity politics is deep division. Here's what that looks like; very few, if any, opportunities for reasonable debate by opposing sides. If one is not for, then they are against.
Since identity is personal, if one does not agree with the subject at hand, it follows that one must be against the person espousing that view. At the personal level, we call that hate, ergo one hates that person though they only disagree.
The divide may not be wide but it is deep. To perceive that it is narrow, one then reaches across. But the other conflates the two dimensions as one. The effort to commune is percieved as violence. The other then feels justified in their retaliation; after all, they think, they didn't start this.
I know of a family who abandoned their plan to renovate the ancestral family home in Asheville. The family had been there since soon after the Revolution. But because they follow Christ Jesus and are what are today known as traditional Americans, they were met with open hostility emanating from the homos and likeminded who have now occupied in great numbers that place. They are vicious (like everywhere else they gather) and they are numerous (Ibid). It is a crying disgrace. Perhaps the worst part is that behavior is encouraged.
The culmination of identity politics is deep division.
ReplyDeleteHere's what that looks like; very few, if any, opportunities for reasonable debate by opposing sides. If one is not for, then they are against.
Since identity is personal, if one does not agree with the subject at hand, it follows that one must be against the person espousing that view. At the personal level, we call that hate, ergo one hates that person though they only disagree.
The divide may not be wide but it is deep. To perceive that it is narrow, one then reaches across. But the other conflates the two dimensions as one. The effort to commune is percieved as violence. The other then feels justified in their retaliation; after all, they think, they didn't start this.
I know of a family who abandoned their plan to renovate the ancestral family home in Asheville. The family had been there since soon after the Revolution. But because they follow Christ Jesus and are what are today known as traditional Americans, they were met with open hostility emanating from the homos and likeminded who have now occupied in great numbers that place. They are vicious (like everywhere else they gather) and they are numerous (Ibid). It is a crying disgrace. Perhaps the worst part is that behavior is encouraged.
Won't be surprised to see vigilantes rise again!
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