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[–]Rationalmind 39 insightful - 3 fun39 insightful - 2 fun40 insightful - 3 fun -  (5 children)

I also peaked left at the same time I peaked trans. I peaked left when SJW’s wokespeak started to sound misogynistic, racist, elitist, and classist while coercing speech with pronouns. Thank goodness for radical feminism using a traditional class analysis, it’s been my saving grace.

[–]Anonimouse 34 insightful - 2 fun34 insightful - 1 fun35 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

I'd been involved in identity politics for ages. My thing was disability, which is really, really under represented everywhere. It was interesting noticing just how intensely other "groups" focused on identity so hard trying to ignore class. But class is everything. Wealth and the access to the means of survival and meaning is everything. You can't discuss oppression without discussing class.

[–]Rationalmind 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Precisely! I have all my other forms of identity too, but to wipe out class, which is the strongest driving factor, is madness.

[–]JustAMom 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Ive never heard "wokespeak". I've always used "newspeak". Mind if I copy you from time to time?

[–]Rationalmind 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Of course!