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   On Wed, 31 Jan 2024, oldernow wrote:   
      
   > On 2024-01-20, Ilya Shambat  wrote:   
   >   
   >> A friend of mine, who is black, said that all of us are racists   
   >> as we identify with our own groups.   
   >   
   > In my mind, racism is attributing likely behavior to the appearances   
   > also known as physical attributes.   
   >   
   > That makes anyone that speaks of a color of person or people   
   > racist, e.g. "white people", "black person", "people of color",   
   > because personhood not only has no color, but is utterly invisible   
   > to the eye, yet in those formulations a kind of person - i.e. the   
   > kind of behavior to be expected of/from them - is implied by their   
   > skin color.   
      
   This has, in my opinion, been elevated into an artform by the modern   
   woke/identity politics wave. No longer do we categorize ourselves   
   according to skincolor, we now have gender, transgender, environmental,   
   age, wealth and more dividing lines.   
      
   As I wrote in my rant on communism, this is needed in order to sow   
   discord and create the us vs. them feeling that fuels a lot of politics.   
      
   The built in weakness here (which is why identity politics/woke:ism will   
   never work in the long term) is that once the external enemy is gone, the   
   internal groups start feeding on each other.   
      
   Best regards,   
   Daniel   
      
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