The post to which I responded related to police claiming to be one of those beleagured minorities, and I note that that is exactly what I've been on about, that every group then wishes to be protected from negative comments about them, by calling it hate speech. Religions are the first ones on the bandwagon, but it doesn't stop there - it goes to groups like this - cops - the enforcement arm of the State wants protection from "hate."Seabass wrote: ↑Thu May 10, 2018 10:06 pmYou really are a thoughtless twit. You seem pathologically incapable of empathizing with anyone who isn't straight, white and male. What the fuck do you expect beleaguered minorities to do, just accept their lot in life as second class citizens? See, here's the thing: enslavement of black people was white identity politics. Segregation, also white identity politics. Denial of rights to gays and trannies is hetero identity politics. Making it hard to get an abortion is christian identity politics. Whipping up resentment and division over the imagined "War on Christmas" is Christian identity politics.Forty Two wrote: ↑Thu May 10, 2018 8:56 pmThat is, indeed, ridiculous, and it is a direct outgrowth of the ridiculous left-wing progressive SJW identity politics.
Everyone starts to want to be in a protected group.
Some folks think it'll just be limited to the poor, downtrodden folks who have it so, so, sooooo bad.... that's what I've been on about. It wouldn't matter if it's just accommodating a small group of people who got the short end of the stick for too long. The problem is that it blossoms into a giant mass of absurdity, precisely as you have shown by the suggestion that police are a protected class and subject to hate crime legislation, which would spread into words against them being hate speech.
Minorities wouldn't have to engage in identity politics if majorities didn't do it first.
Yes, segregation and slavery are part of identity politics, which is why it's so amazing that so-called "progressives" adopt that kind of ideology. They seem to be incapable of seeing that it's pernicious, and that what we should be after is viewing people as individuals, and each individual ought to have equal rights under the law.
I've never called identity politics "black" identity politics, or "minority" identity politics. I've just called it "identity" politics, because no matter who is asserting it, it's a horrible idea, as is its outgrowth, intersectionalism.
The does not protect, morever - not in any jurisdiction I'm aware of -- just "minority" groups. When hate speech or other protective laws are enacted, they refer to "on account of race" or "on account of sex" or "on account of religion." It doesn't say "oppressed race, religion or sex..." That's because the law generally has to apply equally to people. So, when you get a law like that, the white race thinks it can avail itself of the same protections afforded to blacks, and Christians think they are just as protected as Muslims. And, why shouldn't they?
I've said nothing to suggest that I don't have empathy toward other people. I do. I just don't base my empathy on people's membership in a given group, or how they "identify." I have empathy for individuals, regardless of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation.
Please learn to address other people without personal attacks. You and others here are showing some true colors here. I suspect the moderators are noticing who the real problems are here at this forum. And it wasn't Seth and it isn't Cunt, that's for sure.