The woke say part of white privilege not seeing yourself as having a white identity.
The woke want whites to adopt a white identity because they think adopting white identity is the first step to white people acknowledging the "white privilege" that comes with white identity...
The woke want whites to adopt a white identity because they think adopting white identity is the first step to white people acknowledging the "white privilege" that comes with white identity...
The woke want *EVERYONE* including white people to develop "racial consciousness," to adopt a racial identity, and to then use that identity and consciousness to locate themselves in the social hierarchy of oppression. (the woke call this acknowledging your "positionality")
The same is true of "gender." The goal of getting everyone to adopt consciousness and identity around race, sex, gender, ability status, etc, is to get everyone to play identity politics according the woke rules, and integrate EVERYONE into the identity politics narrative
The way they do this is to get **EVERYONE** including white people, to adopt a racial consciousness and identity. Why? because in order for you to acknowledge your "white privilege" and take your place at the back of the woke line of woke IDPOL you need to identify as white.
The way that you win this game it to not take the bait, to refuse the woke terms of discussion and rules of engagement, and refuse to play identity politics.
Acknowledging you have a particular ethnicity is fine. I'm white, and I'm ethnically jewish....but here's the thing.....
Acknowledging you have a particular ethnicity is fine. I'm white, and I'm ethnically jewish....but here's the thing.....
I do not organize my politics around these things. I acknowledge they exist, but I do not want to be treated as though I am jewish or white, I want to be treated as Wokal Distance, an individual.
I don't want you thinking you know me cause you know my background....
I don't want you thinking you know me cause you know my background....
John Searle (who is part Charokee) was asked why he didn't identify as Cherokee. When someone said "Professor Searle prefers to be thought of as white,'" Searle responded with:
"I find that ridiculous. Professor Searle does not want to be thought of in these categories at all."
"I find that ridiculous. Professor Searle does not want to be thought of in these categories at all."
This is precisely my attitude. And I think it is the winning attitude. Don't get caught in the nexus of identity politics. It's a poison and you ought to avoid it.
The dissident right (similar to the woke) always try to blur the lines between acknowledging an ethnicity on one hand, and building your identity and politics around ethnicity on the other.
You need to watch for this move.
You need to watch for this move.
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