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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
You are the one who, apropos of nothing, described yourself as "anti-most wokeism (people insisting where race is an issue it is the primary if not only significant issue, people who think 1619 holds water.)" but we are the ones wallowing in identity politics. Got it.
I'm not emotionally invested in anything here. I care so much about the 1619 Project that I haven't bothered to read it.
Will Wilkerson's "On The Defensive Prickliness of Anti-Woke Patriotism" basically has your number. |
That article is perhaps the least apt description of my thinking you could have offered. It's also a long walk in a circle. The point isn't terribly revelatory and it's adequately made in the first three paragraphs.
But I think it's terrifically funny you think I've patriotic leanings. I've only spent hours here arguing with Adder about how the status quo and hierarachies of this country are miserable and unsustainable.
You keep trying to shoehorn me into a conservative box, when the answer to what drives me is right in the sentence you've cited: "anti." You should take me at my word. I'm confessing my essential psyche when I say that if I see an idea/concept/ethos/policy become venerated, and I think it's flawed, I want to dismantle it. It's an antisocial bent, I'll readily admit. But it's not conservative. How do I know that? Because I'm also anti-conservative.
ETA: I hate groups as well. Nothing is a worse than fucking group of people agreeing on something -- giving each other atta boys, collectively embracing an idea. The herd-think that goes along with fashionable ideas is maddening.
https://www.reddit.com/user/jaimiesi...of_people_who/ You get a group really high on that endorphin rush of being together and feeling like they can and should effect change and you get the kind of thing we had on January 6.
