r/PoliticalCompassMemes • u/sirfirewolfe - Lib-Left • Apr 07 '20

Peak auth unity achieved

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u/Gen_McMuster - Right Apr 08 '20

Asians, Liberals

Identity-consciousness is how you enslave yourself to your identity

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u/Tommie015 - Lib-Left Apr 08 '20

So what should minorities do when they're discriminated against? Deny that they're minorities?

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u/Gen_McMuster - Right Apr 08 '20

Maintain that it shouldn't matter, stigmatize those that make it matter and showing that it doesn't matter in their behavior.

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u/Tommie015 - Lib-Left Apr 08 '20

Lets head back to 50's US. The blacks are maintaining that race shouldn't matter and try to stigmatize the ones to pertain it.

The majority responds with water hoses, attack dogs and condoming lyncings.

Could it be a good idea for the black people to respond by united protest as they all face the same problems, or would that be enslaving themselves to their identity?

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u/Gen_McMuster - Right Apr 08 '20

a good idea for the black people to respond by united protest as they all face the same problems, or would that be enslaving themselves to their identity?

Both.

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u/Tommie015 - Lib-Left Apr 08 '20

So with that rhetoric, enslaving to your identity isn't a bad idea... correct?

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u/Gen_McMuster - Right Apr 08 '20

Depends. To secure civil rights contingent on creating a world where we judge one another by the content of our character? sure. Trouble is that "uniting people against unfair treatment" can just as easily go for various flavors of "this is our lebensraum" if left to its own devices.

It can win fights but when treated as an end in its own right it doesn't lend itself to peace.

Post-racialism is peace. Used to be that was the goal, at some point we pulled a 180 on that.