- What makes an identity? Discrete bits of whatever makes a person who they are; external circumstances and internal conditions synthesized into one; common bits.
- You can’t discount it. You are who you are as a function of certain factors manufactured and innate elements making man who he is and distinguishing himself from others and the process, uniting with like men too.
- What does this say about identity politics?
- My logic might not be the most sound here but if you’re working toward and operating under a generalization it needs to be a solid one. An immutable one. Absolutely or necessarily true as-is.
- Humans are not above category error. Or total category wipe-outs. Prejudice, haste and all sorts of mistakes mischaracterizing themselves and others.
- This doesn’t sound well for the derivation of discrete policies.
I don’t want to try and sound smart here, really, all I’m trying to say is that identity markers can be valid units for analysis. But not always. And you don’t want to swing these individual units around as though they comprise a whole rational thing and you don’t want to swing around this whole rational thing that you just compromised with bad thinking as though now you’re prepared to extract more itty bitty dumb bits of data to call attention toward.
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