Used to think identity poltiics and victim/oppressor dynamics was mostly a calling card of the left. But now I see it all over the place now from the right.

Reminder: every person is an individual, responsible only for his own actions, not those of any other person. A society forgets this truth at its peril.

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identity politics is a mark of narcissism, it is about self image and expectations of validation.

this is on the rise in a large part due to the mass media taking the job of parents, which is happening due to the deliberate destruction of the family unit. also, the school systems have played a big role in this as well, and the way the boomers were coddled so much helped lay the foundation for this malfunction increasing in frequency.

nothing has really changed in its quality since the 60s but the quantity of demoralization injected into the media and now the way media is filtered to highlight this demoralizing with social media, the alienation has become worse than ever.

There’s some social science backing to the idea that oppressed/oppressor is fundamental to progressivism.

Victim mentality is just a hallmark of losers, though.

exactly, identity politics of the right sound awfully leftist to me