re: Identity politics is partially responsible for white nationalism.

Racism =white nationalism

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The backlash against Brown v Board of Education (and literally every other Civil Rights movement)—100% identity politics.

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How do you NOT know the difference between progressing as a society towards justice, a mantra of Dr. King, and pandering to segments of society based solely on race, etc. WHILE DIRECTLY and UNAPOLOGETICALLY marginalizing and disparaging another segment (whites).

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Literally every person who bitches about identity politics is guilty of it himself

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Wrong.

You misspelled primarily

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I hate how we've allowed the left to label nationalism as some racist movement. There is nothing wrong with putting your country first.

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precisely

I am so proud to have been born in America - and enjoy a >80% lineage that came to this land in the 1600s. My latest possible 'immigrant' ancestor came to America in 1830. I actually have real Native American ancestors, dating back to early 1600s.

But never in my life have I been taught that 'white people,' as a group, are better than 'others,' as a group. I have always made decisions and opinions based on an individual's actions - and that includes the groups that they decide to associate yourself with.

If you voluntarily join a group that says skin color is the primary quality that must be considered, then I judge your decision to be part of THAT group to be stupid, and will endeavor to have noting more to do with you - except make fun of your ignorance and moral failure.

Identitarians are in a battle to pull us middle folk to one side or the other.

Far left identitarians have been at it for ages, you're now seeing far right identitarians fight back to avoid losing too much ground.

One side screams evil racist nazi fascist and the other screams they took er jobs and want yer guns.

Roger

Identity = ego

The whole topic is about identification with one's own self, and qualities.

Seizing upon one such quality works.
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Hillary tried using identity politics to win in 2016 and it backfired on her greatly.

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ecb

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Racism =white nationalism

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Goddamn I can't imagine life in that era.

America's evolution on race in such a short time has been nothing short of an unmitigated modern miracle.

The people practicing identity politics now are a direct threat to undo that progress

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It must be hard to comprehend - It is hard for me to comprehend and I lived it. Born in 1938, I was raised in the era of segregated schools and service. I never knew any difference and once asked my dad = "why do coloreds have to use a different bathroom?' His answer was short = 'hygiene.' And that satisfied my 10 yr old mind.

Never once did I hear any animosity between the races. Of course we lived 7 miles from town on a farm. My dad (who was born in 1894) did tell me of the KKK and how he would never be associated with them. He told me a story of when he was a young man working as foreman of a group of timber cutters - back in the days of cross cut saws. Their job was to clear cut an area. two man crews were assigned a 'lane' and the lane each day was drawn by chance. Dad had black sawyers as part of his crew and one of his cousins was also in the crew. One day they drew their 'lanes' and his cousin drew a lane that went thru a nasty area of swamp. He demanded that my dad switch him to the lane drawn by the black crew and put them in the swampy lane. He fired his cousin on the spot.

When he told me about that in the early 50s, my thought was "well of course, that was the right thing to do.' It was only decades later that I realized what a significant event it was in that era and my pride in my dad increased. I never knew he to do any racist act, but I am sure he would be held up today as an example of 'virulent racism'

Was there 'racist' language? = of course, but I never detected any enmity. Unknown people were referred to by their group identity all the time with no rancor. Poles, dagos. n-----, japs, yankees, krauts, redbones, jews, spicks, aggies, etc = mostly in the vein of jokes.

In my area there was not any racially motivated event that took place before I left in 1956.

And of course, when school desegregation became an issue in the early 50s, my first reaction was 'why?" But the violence that erupted thru many parts of the south quickly convinced me that 'this is wrong' and had to be stopped. I listened to the wisdom of Martin Luther King and found nothing that I could disagree with on a rational basis.

It is certainly uncomfortable to be made aware that your entire world-view all your life had been wrong. My conversion was not instantaneous, but it was totally accomplished within 2 years from first introduction to the problem.

My only animus today is towards the purveyors of this group identity bullshite, namely the entire cabal of DNC/MSM/academe/entertainment/hightech. I hate these mfers - the are evil. Those who are influenced by them are primarily ignorant and apathetic - they are pathetic. If they cannot recognize they are being sold a rash of lies within a couple of years, they are too dumb to be allowed to vote.