pErvinalia wrote: ↑Wed May 30, 2018 11:57 pm
So the black civil rights movement was pernicious?
Identity politics is pernicious. MLK's civil rights position aimed toward full acceptance and integration of blacks into the mainstream American culture, rather than perpetuating that marginalization through affirmations of difference. That's why his words are now scorned by identity politics assholes, who don't agree that we should have a world where people are not judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
The poison of identity politics is the modern version of the segregation that Dr. King opposed, and that civil libertarians also opposed. Today, to believe as Dr. King did — that people should “not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character” — is to be seen as racist. Up is now down, and down is now up.
Laurie Rubel, a Brooklyn College math education professor who drew attention recently for saying this, as noted at Campus Reform:
Color-blindness, too, can be an issue for math teachers, according to Rubel, who asserts that “Teachers who claim color-blindness — that is, they claim to not notice the race of their students — are, in effect, refusing to acknowledge the impact of enduring racial stratification on students and their families.
“By claiming not to notice, the teacher is saying that she is dismissing one of the most salient features of the child’s identity and that she does not account for it in her curricular planning and instruction,” Rubel adds, citing education theorist Gloria Ladson-Billings.
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10342
Identity politics ensures that we judge by the color of our skin. Civil libertarianism is liberal. Identity politics is "progressive/leftist." That's the difference. And, that's why identity politics is pernicious, as is the leftist progressive ideology which births it.
To retreat to a position claiming that identity politics is somehow a liberal or civil liberties movement is absurd. Identity politics is more akin to fascism - it seeks to control, not free. It seeks to silence, not give voice. It seeks to oppress, not help. It is a bastardization of the liberal civil rights movement, and suggest that identity politics has anything to do with liberalism or civil libertarianism is absurd.
“When I was in college, I took a terrorism class. ... The thing that was interesting in the class was every time the professor said ‘Al Qaeda’ his shoulders went up, But you know, it is that you don’t say ‘America’ with an intensity, you don’t say ‘England’ with the intensity. You don’t say ‘the army’ with the intensity,” she continued. “... But you say these names [Al Qaeda] because you want that word to carry weight. You want it to be something.” - Ilhan Omar
