Here’s a thought:
The Left’s allegiance to identity politics is akin to racial and ethnic
loyalty spouted by bigots.
That may sound incredible at first. But consider:
undeniably, the Left characterizes people by characteristics and
circumstances. White society, oppressed
minorities, “tax the rich”, Black Lives Matter (don’t say “all”), and so forth.
It used to be a tenant of good liberal thought that Martin
Luther King, Jr. spoke for a better America when he hoped for a future in which
a person’s character, not his skin color, was what mattered. No longer.
Now the targets are structural (white) racism and white privilege. Calls for reparations are next.
[Why shouldn’t today’s Americans, still predominately
white, pay for the sins of Southern slave owners more than 150 years ago?
Should the sins be borne by generations? And what about the millions and millions of
immigrants who came to America after the Civil War? Is their skin color a reason for assigning
culpability?]
Look around. Doesn’t
it seem as if segments on the Left are hostile to whites because of their
race? Bigotry, racism are not the
exclusive preserve of one group of the other.
Viewing people as members of a favored or unfavored group – not as
individuals with distinct characteristics, good and bad – is the common
denominator of the bigot.
Bigotry and hatred are anathema to conservatives. Group categorization is the unalterable enemy
of conservative principles of individual rights and responsibilities and the
freedom in which they function.
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