Solidarity and the Fuckery of Identity Politics
The thing is, fuckery takes two, the yang projector and the yin target. Without the victim there is no crime.
Power to the victim, praise the predator?
Solidarity used to mean “Let’s stick together with common values to achieve our goal.” Now it seems to mean, “Let’s stick together in our corner believing that up is down, regardless of the evidence to the contrary.”
Also, this is an insanely long rant that I have edited and massaged for days, weeks, years. It’s d…
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