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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I am increasingly forced into thinking in terms of my group membership and my ethnicity, because it can make the difference between me being murdered or not. I am not that naive.

It can? You think people from other groups want to murder you?

I used to have far more connection with people based on interest. I could connect with someone from the other side of the planet based on the same interests.

Yeah tbh I've had this experience too. :(

I've missed out on friendships because of this stuff, because it's inside me now, this group-identity stuff, and because it's inside the other people I'm supposed to be connecting with. Who it should be easy for me to connect with.

The smears, lies, and the constant victimhood ideologies were what destroyed it.

Yeah I think this is how the political groups recruit.

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It can? You think people from other groups want to murder you?

Yes! Jesus, absolutely. If you walk into the wrong parts of certain cities, in certain countries, you better be aware what skin color you have. Today, it can make the difference between being hired or not, getting a spot in college, being attacked on the street, and in some particularly unsafe places if you get mugged or not, if you make it home alive.

Again, I do not disclose anything about my person, my skin color, my gender, but not all countries on this planet are equally safe. Some people who have it best complain the most. They do not realize how safe their communities are in comparison.

Just to be clear, I didn't think this way, I still don't like what is going on but it can be very dangerous to be naive to it.

Also, I don't know what "people from other groups" means. Everybody is from another group, by some metric. I know that I am more likely to be attacked based on certain characteristics. It's not out of some paranoia about certain groups.

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Do you think it's gotten worse recently?

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With identity politics, yes. There is no way to push back against this anymore, either. The victimhood hierarchy is too firmly established. If you do not have the right identity, or if your attacker ranks more highly in the oppression game, you get nowhere.

https://www.the-sun.com/news/37410/dad-left-paralysed-with-half-a-skull-and-sunken-brain-after-brutal-attack-by-thug-who-gets-just-two-months-in-jail/