有的左派同誌幻想,讓一群人作為“地主反壞右”分子,站在那裏等著讓你批鬥,可人家沒做錯事,為什麽要心甘情願地被批鬥?
Identity politics是一劑毒藥,把人群按不可更改的天生特質分類以後互相鬥爭,而因為這些特質不能改,鬥爭就無法調和而愈演愈烈。
群眾鬥群眾當然不會自發產生,當然是有幕後黑手的。幕後黑手,就是那些因此而得利的:鼓吹IP的媒體、大學、教授、意見領袖,有些黑人領袖,民主黨。。。。
比起階級鬥爭,這種政治更加無可救藥,左派同誌陣營裏麵也有強烈反省的聲音,可惜,所謂的Obama Coalition,那些用IP獲得了2008-2012年總統選舉的“聰明人”們,認為挑動群眾鬥群眾是長期必勝法寶。因為拉美移民出生率,遠超整體人口出生率,所以以後世界一定是他們的
可他們想錯了,ideas and principles do matter,年輕人,墨裔也不會全部就聽左派的指揮根據他們的出生而以為政治就是鬥白人。
華爾街日報等了一位左派同誌對Identity Politics的反省:
To meet the Reagan challenge, we liberals needed to develop an ambitious new vision of America and its future that would again inspire people of every walk of life and in every region of the country to come together as citizens. Instead we got tangled up in the divisive, zero-sum world of identity politics, losing a sense of what binds us together as a nation. What went missing in the Reagan years was the great liberal-democratic We. Little wonder that so few now wish to join us.
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The results of this shift are now plain to see. The classic Democratic goal of bringing people from different backgrounds together for a single common project has given way to a pseudo-politics of self-regard and increasingly narrow and exclusionary self-definition. And what keeps this approach to politics alive is that it is cultivated in the colleges and universities where liberal elites are formed.
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As a teacher, I am increasingly struck by a difference between my conservative and progressive students. Contrary to the stereotype, the conservatives are far more likely to connect their engagements to a set of political ideas and principles. Young people on the left are much more inclined to say that they are engaged in politics as an X, concerned about other Xs and those issues touching on X-ness. And they are less and less comfortable with debate.
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Black Lives Matter is a textbook example of how not to build solidarity. By publicizing and protesting police mistreatment of African-Americans, the movement delivered a wake-up call to every American with a conscience. But its decision to use this mistreatment to build a general indictment of American society and demand a confession of white sins and public penitence only played into the hands of the Republican right.