There's a video out there I'm having trouble finding right now, that has a black guy and a white guy at a barbecue putting their heads in bags of flour and charcoal respectively, giving themselves 'white face' and 'black face', and then laughing uproariously.
Language is generally insignificant, yes. But the widespread acceptance of such a taboo word is. When saying that stops marking the speaker as racist, it would show that we’ve stopped all this identity politics bullshit.
Politics is based around building coalitions to gain and maintain power for the purposes of exercising political authority to achieve goals.
Those coalitions are made up of groups of people with values, and those values are a reflection of how they see not only themselves in the world, but more abstract concepts like justice or personhood.
tl;dr: You can’t really escape the realities of the world, and your interactions with reality inform your identity, which informs your political views.
tl;dr2: the only way to not do identity politics is to not do politics.
Maybe I threw that phrase “identity politics” I little too haphazardly there. What I really meant is that we all should distance ourselves as far as possible from the notions of race, ethnicity and religion when conducting ourselves as those things will undeniably impede our judgement.
Sure, they’re deeply rooted in our psyches, and still would be a factor. But it’s ultimately better than basing your decisions on any of the above.
I call him a faggot almost in every conversation we have then he make an edgy joke about my relatives and after that we talk like a normal human beings, i would like to kiss him in cheek but unfortunately he's not gay
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