Identity politics sucks. But it’s not a Liberal’s creation.

In a free world, there is nothing freer than being unidentified. Reducing someone to a label is wrong, whatever the reason is. How you identify should not be a representation of your whole self.

FriedByTheFrench

“We know what we are but not what we may be” – Spinoza

     Identity politics sucks. Last time, my wife wanted to register for a seminar. She had to answer a few questions: what race, what ethnicity, what age, what sexual identity she identified with, and how she wanted to be referred to. That’s insane. My problem with it is that the persons going this way think that they are broadening their deepness when in fact they are just reducing someone to a few concepts that are independent from (or should be just a part of) their way of thinking and who they truly are. In a free world, there is nothing freer than being unidentified. Reducing someone to a label is wrong, whatever the reason is. How you identify should not be a representation of your whole self.

     Identity based politics is something that America…

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