From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2024-02-01, D  wrote:   
      
   > > 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.   
      
   I tend to want to openly break into "And Bingo was his   
   name-oh!" after reading something that beautifully put. ;-)   
      
   It's funny we're discussing such in an online realm that experienced   
   a so-called "Eternal September", because I believe something similar   
   happened to society in general, only I can't remember when it became   
   obvious to me. But somewhere along the line I began intoning "I'm   
   surrounded by idiots" more than just occasionally.   
      
   Grant it, I could simply a massively narcissistic egomaniac, but   
   I swear to  that while lesser beings have   
   probably always been the majority, barriers to their "running the   
   place" somehow kept their overall influence such that those with   
   "half a brain" could continue to maintain a functioning society.   
      
   Another statement I began using with my wife on a regular basis,   
   oh, maybe something like five years ago is "We're going to   
   get out of here *just* in time", i.e. before complete and utter   
   social/civilization collapse, i.e. before we're literally pulled from   
   our house and beaten to death for appearing not merely suspicious   
   (read: intelligent), but for having been determined utterly certainly   
   to be the cause of the marauding idiots' for-shit life/world.   
      
   (See what I mean by "massively narcissistic egomaniac"? ;-) )   
      
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