"Society and those who wish to preserve it require identity politics to categorize people based on socially assigned constructs. Identity politics is where individual experimentation goes to die.

Like studying the bricks in a wall rather than venturing beyond the wall itself, identity politics, like all politics promotes the death of imaginative exploration. Politics represent the fixed ideological prescriptions of living, assigned to “the masses” who are treated as if they are incapable of thinking and acting as individuals.

[…] , identity politics predetermines the popular narrative by reversing the hierarchy; those belonging to the marginalized category become the dominating group who then are given a pass to trivialize the experiences of those they view as opposite but this hierarchical reversal doesn’t challenge hierarchy itself – it only reforms it in an attempt to create a power masquerading as equality.

This power, composed of social capital, is then used as the power to ridicule, coerce and dominate others with impunity."—Flower Bomb [Arming Negativity: Towards the Queerest Attack] >

https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/flower-bomb-arming-negativity-towards-the-queerest-attack

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