I started already disagreeing with him. Yes, there are infinite ways to categorize people, so what? I am not a squarehead, let them identify with an apache helicopter. I won't be an issue if people just accept, agree or not.
I agree with him that assessing and classifying is hard, so my solution is leave it to whoever is interested in those politics, I am not so I am for leaving them be. The problem arrises from not letting people just be.
His arguments sounds like someone that is afraid of losing whatever "power" that only exists in his head. There is no problem in dividing people, people are inherently different and it is not a problem in any other field, religion, sports, hobbies, everyone tries to find something to identify.
No one is unique, that I grant, but if someone identifies, as he said "1/8 black" why would I care to begin with? I know a problem would arrive when someone "8/8 black" arrives and say "hold on, you are not black, I am black" but that is a discussion for them, not for me, my stand would be to let him identify with it but it is a loose position, if "they" come into an agreement it would make me decide in which feet to stand.
But Jordan's point is loose and not convincing, he sounds like the brazilian people that were scared and the fear made them elect a dumbass just because he promissed to end identity politics. Like I said, it did not go well over here. This speech is very very demagogue
Once you get down to the nitty-gritty, the truth is that: The largest minority is the individual, and that's what people need to re-remember. It's the less-divisive and most inclusive ideology which treats people the most equal. Anything else is a bunch of tribalism bullshit divide and conquer techniques. What Jordan said was distilled truth. It wasn't demagoguery at all. The truth is when you get politically divisive, dangerous things like democide ultimately can and will end up happening. Just look at Adolf Hitler. He did that same caste system bullshit and made people wear special arm badges to identify them as a this or a that. We'll be doomed to repeat history if we cannot learn from it. It's one thing to pander to unfounded fears, and it's another thing to give legitimate warnings. If I say to a child, "If you touch that fire, you'll get burnt, and it will hurt very badly," that doesn't make me a demagogue, but rather, a truth sayer.
I started already disagreeing with him. Yes, there are infinite ways to categorize people, so what? I am not a squarehead, let them identify with an apache helicopter. I won't be an issue if people just accept, agree or not.
I agree with him that assessing and classifying is hard, so my solution is leave it to whoever is interested in those politics, I am not so I am for leaving them be. The problem arrises from not letting people just be.
His arguments sounds like someone that is afraid of losing whatever "power" that only exists in his head. There is no problem in dividing people, people are inherently different and it is not a problem in any other field, religion, sports, hobbies, everyone tries to find something to identify.
No one is unique, that I grant, but if someone identifies, as he said "1/8 black" why would I care to begin with? I know a problem would arrive when someone "8/8 black" arrives and say "hold on, you are not black, I am black" but that is a discussion for them, not for me, my stand would be to let him identify with it but it is a loose position, if "they" come into an agreement it would make me decide in which feet to stand.
But Jordan's point is loose and not convincing, he sounds like the brazilian people that were scared and the fear made them elect a dumbass just because he promissed to end identity politics. Like I said, it did not go well over here. This speech is very very demagogue
Once you get down to the nitty-gritty, the truth is that: The largest minority is the individual, and that's what people need to re-remember. It's the less-divisive and most inclusive ideology which treats people the most equal. Anything else is a bunch of tribalism bullshit divide and conquer techniques. What Jordan said was distilled truth. It wasn't demagoguery at all. The truth is when you get politically divisive, dangerous things like democide ultimately can and will end up happening. Just look at Adolf Hitler. He did that same caste system bullshit and made people wear special arm badges to identify them as a this or a that. We'll be doomed to repeat history if we cannot learn from it. It's one thing to pander to unfounded fears, and it's another thing to give legitimate warnings. If I say to a child, "If you touch that fire, you'll get burnt, and it will hurt very badly," that doesn't make me a demagogue, but rather, a truth sayer.