You should’ve left it in the other thread. The left caused this new rise in white supremacy, or as @Alstein points out later in the thread, the return of the white identity.
On a wonky sort of note, if people do want to target the left, justifiably, for some of this, look no further than the whole poststructuralism/deconstuctionist phase of academia from a few decades back, which has become sort of the new norm in a lot of fields. In this intellectual movement, the very language and structures of what was then considered mainstream or “normal” discourse were attacked, undercut, and dismissed as tools of the hegemonic culture, instruments of oppression, and outgrowths of a parasitic. misogynist, and capitalist culture run amok.It wasn’t enough to disagree with a critic’s interpretation of a text or artifact, you had to totally destroy the entire framework the critic was using and replace it with your own. Any attempt to argue in the old fashion was dismissed as pitiful and desperate bourgeois attempts to preserve the ancien regime.
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And that, I think, is what happened. The more the left internalized postmodernist ways of discussing political issues, and insisted that only their framework was valid, the more they lay the groundwork for what we see now. Because what the Trump upheaval is showing us is a large group of people who are rejecting the existing framework as illegitimate, and insisting that only their framework is valid. Except this time it’s not just in grad school seminars filed with LitCrit Ph.D candidates, and the stakes are much, much higher.
There is a quote on this forum somewhere from many years ago predicting the end state of identity politics would be whites remembering their identity, and the massive ramifications of that. I can’t find the quote, but it doesn’t matter. We’ve been living with the fallout for years.
