Jeff Swann on Nostr: You really didn't answer my question, but I think the people today who want to ...

You really didn't answer my question, but I think the people today who want to believe they are fighting for equality between men & women, & between races, are just cowardly moral hysterics who emerge only after a battle has long been won. It became safe to say that races or sexes were equal & so they now strive to gain some crumb of social status by "fighting" for a cause where there is no enemy. But their lack of an enemy is driving them to create enemies. And in the process they are trying to erase the idea that men & women are distinct & separate beings with fundamentally different characteristics. It is some very erroneous idea of "equality" at the root of the idea that women can BE men or vice versa, is it not? Seems that something similar is also at the root of fat acceptance & "healthy at any size" which is also a denial of reality.

It all seems to stem from a desire to flatten a social heirarchy that cannot be flattened. They want to disconnect certain forms of recognition or respect or admiration from the reality that produces those forms of recognition. Whether it's via outright theft of earnings or some sort of effort to celebrate people for their insanity or their vices as a means of balancing social capital, it's all completely disconnected from reality. And identity politics IS collectivism, where group affiliations & the elevation of "marginalized people" is far more important than any sort of respect for individual rights. Steal everything from all the rich white males or cis gendered people to save the trans black women or whatever.

It's still the same "boomer collectivism" at the root, just twisted into a new form & rebranded. Abstract groups & group consensus are still more important than individual rights.