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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

I'm going to ignore the rest of your bullshit because I want to focus on this huge turd.

People of color are not creating friction over identity. People of color want to be treated fairly. If we were, there would be no fucking friction. White people have put people in categories and deprived them of shit throughout this entire country's history. At every single stage there's been some moron (like you) who looks at people who are fighting for fair treatment and says, "Why are you so focused on your own identity/race/cause?" or some jackass like less who says, "Of course there's going to be a reaction."

It is astounding that we're still having these conversations. Blacks aren't making politics about identity. Our entire existence in this country is defined by the social, political, economic, institutional categories we are automatically thrust into merely by being born a non-white color. Once in these categories when we say, "Hey! Stop throwing us in jail at higher rates for the same fucking crimes!" or "We want to vote too!" and we are guilty of playing identity politics. It's absolute fucking nonsense.

And the person most guilty of identity politics is Trump. He is playing strictly to white people in absolutely every decision he makes, every speech he gives, and every moronic tweet he twats. The use of the term, "identity politics," is for assholes who cannot see that all of politics is identity politics. It's just completely ridiculous.

TM

Guys like Sebastian don't see race. So it's confusing for them when you have to make EVERY conversation about how you're a black man and how that affects your life. You don't hear Sebastian constantly going on and on about his white experiences. If you could learn to transcend racial politics like he has, you wouldn't be so obsessed with micro-aggressions or safe spaces or whatever it is the identity politics crowd is all worked up about today. You could focus on more important things, like how the obsession with micro-aggressions and safe spaces and other identity politics bullshit is one of the biggest problems facing our nation today (although you wouldn't know it with the liberal press constantly echo chambering the shrill bleatings of the hair-on-fire anti-Trump "resistance" Nancies).