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"As a Black, Trans, Gay, Disabled Person..."
Want to know why the woke make everything about race, sex, and gender? Or why they bring up race, sex or gender when discussing things that have nothing to do with race, sex, or gender?
Let's talk about "identitizing"
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"As a Black, Trans, Gay, Disabled Person..."
Want to know why the woke make everything about race, sex, and gender? Or why they bring up race, sex or gender when discussing things that have nothing to do with race, sex, or gender?
Let's talk about "identitizing"
A thread🧵
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Identitizing is a term I coined to describe taking a thing (a book, movie, song, experience, food, anything) and cashing out the significance, and meaning of that thing in terms of the social identity of either the person who made the thing or the person interpreting the thing
Identitizing is a term I coined to describe taking a thing (a book, movie, song, experience, food, anything) and cashing out the significance, and meaning of that thing in terms of the social identity of either the person who made the thing or the person interpreting the thing
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When someone makes what they do about their race, sex and gender, even when those things are unrelated...or when they ground the meaning and significance of their emotions and experience in their race, sex, or gender, that is the process of "identitizing."
When someone makes what they do about their race, sex and gender, even when those things are unrelated...or when they ground the meaning and significance of their emotions and experience in their race, sex, or gender, that is the process of "identitizing."
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At the root of this phenomenon are 2 ideas:
1. A thing is meaningful because it is connected to a social identity such as: race, sex, or gender
2. The ability to understand a thing is a product of whether or not a person has the right identity (IE right race, gender, or sex)
At the root of this phenomenon are 2 ideas:
1. A thing is meaningful because it is connected to a social identity such as: race, sex, or gender
2. The ability to understand a thing is a product of whether or not a person has the right identity (IE right race, gender, or sex)
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I think the emergence of identitizing is what happens when the flattening of meaning that occurs in a postmodern world meets the widespread acceptance of identity politics. I’d like to explain how this occurs, and why I think identitizing leads to greater social fragmentation.
I think the emergence of identitizing is what happens when the flattening of meaning that occurs in a postmodern world meets the widespread acceptance of identity politics. I’d like to explain how this occurs, and why I think identitizing leads to greater social fragmentation.
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As I explained in the thread below, in a postmodern world nothing is seen to be inherently good, true, beautiful, right, excellent, wonderful, valuable, or worthwhile. Everything is deconstructed, and thus meaning gets totally flattened out.
As I explained in the thread below, in a postmodern world nothing is seen to be inherently good, true, beautiful, right, excellent, wonderful, valuable, or worthwhile. Everything is deconstructed, and thus meaning gets totally flattened out.
https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/1431551864198164481?s=20&t=6a6XkzqoIj2EhfuXPA44sA
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The woke try to get out of this by arguing that cannot deny nor deconstruct the experience that another person has, you cannot “deny my experience” as they say. The woke theorists then tie experience to identity by arguing that all experiences are interpreted by people...
The woke try to get out of this by arguing that cannot deny nor deconstruct the experience that another person has, you cannot “deny my experience” as they say. The woke theorists then tie experience to identity by arguing that all experiences are interpreted by people...
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from a particular perspective, and that perspective is a product of their social position as determined by their sex, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc. They then conclude that only thing that cannot be deconstructed is experience interpreted through identity...
from a particular perspective, and that perspective is a product of their social position as determined by their sex, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, etc. They then conclude that only thing that cannot be deconstructed is experience interpreted through identity...
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as identity is understood by wokeness. This is why the woke will often preface everything they say with some version of “speaking as a trans, black, disabled, woman of colour….” they are establishing the identity through which they are interpreting their experience.
as identity is understood by wokeness. This is why the woke will often preface everything they say with some version of “speaking as a trans, black, disabled, woman of colour….” they are establishing the identity through which they are interpreting their experience.
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Since the woke deconstruct everything except experience interpreted through the lens of identity, the only thing left upon which they can try to build meaning is identity.This means for the woke in order for a thing to have meaning it must be connected some social identity.
Since the woke deconstruct everything except experience interpreted through the lens of identity, the only thing left upon which they can try to build meaning is identity.This means for the woke in order for a thing to have meaning it must be connected some social identity.
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Books are read from a black/white/hispanic view.
Emotions are felt as a Black/white/hispanic person.
A song has value because it came from black/white/hispanic culture.
If you don’t get it, that's cause it’s a black/white/hispanic thing, and you're not black/white/hispanic
Books are read from a black/white/hispanic view.
Emotions are felt as a Black/white/hispanic person.
A song has value because it came from black/white/hispanic culture.
If you don’t get it, that's cause it’s a black/white/hispanic thing, and you're not black/white/hispanic
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This means there's no universal things to bind us together. There's no universal human emotions we can reference to understand each other. There's no universal experiences we can share. There's no absolute, objective point of reference from which we can create shared meaning
This means there's no universal things to bind us together. There's no universal human emotions we can reference to understand each other. There's no universal experiences we can share. There's no absolute, objective point of reference from which we can create shared meaning
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The only way to insulate meaning from deconstruction by tying it to identity.
Identity is the lamb’s blood on the doorway of experience that causes the deconstructive angel of the death meaning to pass over whatever meaning a person wants to protect from deconstruction.
The only way to insulate meaning from deconstruction by tying it to identity.
Identity is the lamb’s blood on the doorway of experience that causes the deconstructive angel of the death meaning to pass over whatever meaning a person wants to protect from deconstruction.
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At some point the need to communicate is going to require people break to strangle hold wokeness has on society. If we continue to act like the communication of the deepest meaning of life is impossible for people of different social identities society will disintegrate.
At some point the need to communicate is going to require people break to strangle hold wokeness has on society. If we continue to act like the communication of the deepest meaning of life is impossible for people of different social identities society will disintegrate.
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Thanks for reading.
I wrote a free essay about this on substack. You can read that if you want a more thorough breakdown of identitizing.
Also, if you want to support me, please consider a free or paid subscription, and share these threads widely :)
wokaldistance.substack.com/p/the-identiti…
Thanks for reading.
I wrote a free essay about this on substack. You can read that if you want a more thorough breakdown of identitizing.
Also, if you want to support me, please consider a free or paid subscription, and share these threads widely :)
wokaldistance.substack.com/p/the-identiti…
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