Reply #19: Not exactly [View All]

[Morgana LaFey]

You're spouting rightwing talking points:

All that collectivist crap and identity politics crap is just another way to keep political progressives separated and disorganized.

The rightwing dreams up shit like that so they can continue being racist, sexist, homophobic, and get away with it instead of having to deal with all those tedious claims for equality, dammit!

This country and the entire tradition of liberty that inspired it rests on the rights of the individual.

And all those minority INDIVIDUALS make up a group -- groups (plural) of oppressed INDIVIDUALS. The INDIVIDUAL minority in a racist, sexist, homophobic culture can never become more than a TOKEN, and all her sisters and brothers will not be able to count on the same opportunity that the average white male has by birth. THAT makes a lie of the whole premise on which this country was formed: equality. The INDIVIDUAL can make little progress (except as a toadie TOKEN) unless s/he bands with others in her GROUP to effect change.

And those changes will NEVER happen unless there are people of the dominant culture (i.e., white straight males closely followed by white straight females) who are working WITH them to effect change towards equality.