Comments on: It’s about airing your grievances

By: Peter Whitaker

Peter Whitaker — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 18:47:41 +0000

Airing grievances is necessary, because our enemies want to write in the history books that our extinction occured democratically with the consent of the governed. It’s too late to escape extinction. The only thing we still have control over is how our extinction will be remembered.

By: lucklucky

lucklucky — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 07:12:24 +0000

I disagree, those identity politics – i prefer to call it social supremacist politics – is everything about power even if it is a local power. Or power over peers in first place.

“But a lot of identity politics isn’t really about power, it isn’t about wanting to change the system. It’s about airing grievances, feeling wronged and wanting sympathy and to sort of play the role of the victim.”

It is not only paying the role of the victim , it is playing the role of purportedly defender of the supposed or constructed or created or real victim.

By: Slovenian Guest

Slovenian Guest — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 20:27:14 +0000

It's called biological leninism.

By: Graham

Graham — Mon, 07 Jan 2019 14:33:31 +0000

I have no idea where Robert Greene fell on the political spectrum but I was struck by his using this critique of identity politics- it was the conservative one for decades and typically resulted in enormous, vitriolic progressive backlash in favour of ethnic studies, ethnic identity, rejection of common citizenship, etc.

Nowadays “identity politics” is a catchphrase used by progressives to unironically attack what they believe Trump to be doing. It is therefore bad. What they did and are still doing is not to be called by the horrid name, apparently, though they once used it with pride.

Apart from that, I think he missed something. Progressives actually have built a future majority on identity politics. They just figured out how to forge a coalition by selecting a common foe, and redefining everything to minimize it. Shrink the former definition of “white” to a reducing core, and make sure to get “white” women on side by emphasizing gender and sexuality issues, although not neglecting to take those same women to the intellectial woodshed if they fail to be sufficiently “intersectional”.

This coalition will eventually win.

Sorry- I’ve been seeing a LOT of ads for a cheesy new comedy show called “The Other Two”, about celebrity siblings. The ad features a clueless young woman saying everyone on Twitter calls her a “classic white feminist”, not realizing this is a mortal insult in progressive politics. True story.