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Published: 2015-03-07 02:55:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 941; Favourites: 7; Downloads: 1
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I've been doing quite a bit of research on Nazism, WW2, the Holocaust, the Interwar Period...all in preparation for a map I'm creating and for teaching my classes.When we want to separate ourselves into groups by identity, this can easily be what we come to. Is it what we want? I would hope not. I would hope it never comes to this. But I can see it getting to that one day in the not-so-distant future.
Note: The document on the left is a work pass for foreigners, specifically for someone of Polish descent. The document on the right is a travel passport for someone of Jewish descent.
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UPDATE (Jan 10, 2016): Identity politics can also lead to a limited view of history as per: pjmedia.com/instapundit/223518…
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This would really bring the point home for students, better than using dry statements from a history book.
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It's a touchy topic since it also deals with contemporary issues and, right now, people here are stupid sensitive about identity politics.
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The divide and conquer strategy at its worst.
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Identity politics won't lead to Nazism but it almost always has an authoritarian stink about it. Today the most notable players of identity politics are feminists, ethnic movements and LGTB rights groups. You don't have to look very hard to see their authoritarianism, just look what they are doing to free speech with their political correctness and speech codes.
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Look at the fires stirred between Blacks and Police in the US. In my mind, if something right isn't done it'll lead to a possible Race War.
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What if that is what they want? Black people in America complain that they disproportionately suffer police violence, even for crimes which they commit at the same or lesser rates than other demographics. So why doesn't your government simply end the militarization of the police and have federal prosecutors deal with those cases? White people complain about disproportionately paying for other peoples food stamps. So why doesn't your government simply end that programme? The very concept of race as we know it today, was not around in ancient times. The Greek writer Herodotus knew of people as far south as Ethiopia and as far north as Germany (or to be more accurate, the lands which would one day become the nation-states of Ethiopia and Germany we know today) yet he did not divide the world into "races". The concepts were largely invented by the owners of indentured servants in the sixteen hundreds to ensure that they could divide people and face no unified opposition.
Identity politics makes it easy to lead people without actually having to follow any of their demands.
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Frankly the only sane solution is what Martin Luther King Jr talked about. Things like judging a person by their character, not their skin color.
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I live in the UK, so I can't really comment on the American University Application system, but through 👍: 0 ⏩: 1
Apparently I cannot hyper-link properly.
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The elites are not prejudiced. They only support prejudice because it prevents cohesion amongst those who might otherwise unify and impede them. Identity politics is a way for bad politicians to gain power. "it doesn't matter that I am an insane power-hungry occultist, what matters is that I am one of your people and not one of them".
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We all have distinct ethnicities and cultural identities; saying that leads to Nazism is stupid.
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Ok, here's two other possibilities which also happened, take your pick:
Slavery (Pretty much anywhere on Earth, starting about 10,000 years ago. Egypt. Rome. China. Mongolian Empire. etc)
Dhimmi (Anywhere islam is in the majority and all else are 'second-class')
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EB's point also fits. And he chose the one closest to us in time, if you don't count ISIS or today's gender-bender mentality.
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What does any of that have to do with people having cultural identities?
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What does that have to do with being FORCED to wear your cultural identity on your sleeve, as Jews were forced to by the Nazis, and as a sign of inferiority? That's part of what EB is getting at, above.
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No one is forcing you to wear a cultural identity but white people can't deny being white, and asian people can't deny being asian.
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Then you have completely missed the point of the above piece.
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the keyword was "want to separate".
It does lead to nationalist stupidity such as categorizing everyone in entire nations, cultures, religions, and political parties, as "good" or "bad" like we are nothing but a bunch of insects in a different hive rather than individuals.
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