White people don't want to talk about it

[Waiting For Everyman]

447. That whole "identity politics" philosophy is absolutely empty.

Now I see that it's exactly the same thing that was hashed out here over and over for years in the HoF (History of Feminism Group) Wars. This is HoF 2.0, just change the feminist words for race terms. Bingo! Same deal all over again. The privilege crap can circle on down the toilet bowl to the same place the patriarchy crap went.

That puts it to bed for me. They can have their echo chamber to themselves.

(No I take that back. I won't "feed" threads beating the identity politics drum which are clearly of, by, and for the Echo Chamber, but I reserve the option to challenge or unmask this crap elsewhere when it seems necessary.) The main reason why I'm in this thread is that it's directing a question to the majority.

If any African Americans and PoC want to leave that bogus pseudo-philosophy behind and actually talk about what the problems are today and what can be done about it, I'm ready to pay attention for that.

Frankly I think this board is owed an apology. This identity politics schtick, as promoted first by HoF and now by AA, is nothing but a huge trolling philosophy. There's nothing about getting anything done in it. It's purely about creating fights and divisions. Academia should be ashamed for inventing it. But for them, it's a meal ticket so honesty doesn't count when there's money to be made. (For any who don't understand that, see Monk06's posts above.)