How Does Identity Politics Work if You Can Change Your Identity?

 

Surely someone on the left anticipated this problem.  Surely.  Or, perhaps, leftists are as short-sighted and closed-minded as they appear.  Surely not.  But then again, as soon as Rachel Dolezal went from cute blonde girl to black leader of the NAACP, surely the left realized that they had a problem.  Surely.

But they soldier on.  You’ve got to admire their tireless efforts.  Leftists seem determined to convince everyone that they are bonkers.  Or perhaps stupid.  And they continue to win elections.  Or, perhaps, they continue to ‘win’ ‘elections.’  I guess I don’t know.  But their master plan seems to be working.  Which seems odd, because they seem to have no master plan.

Surely they anticipated the problems with identity politics, once they decided that anyone can change their identity at any time.  And if they didn’t anticipate that, Rachel tried to explain it to them years ago, the way Mr. Webb is now.

Surely someone on the left has a plan.  Surely.

Or perhaps not.

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  1. Raxxalan Member
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    If the left didn’t have a near monopoly on the media they would be put in a padded room for their own protection and the protection of others.

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  2. DonG (CAGW is a Scam) Coolidge
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    Dr. Bastiat: And if they didn’t anticipate that, Rachel tried to explain it to them years ago, the way Mr. Webb is now.

     

    Mr?

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  3. EODmom Coolidge
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    I’d like my poker playing brother in law to employ the new strategy and register as a woman to play in the women’s poker tournaments. Wouldn’t that raise his ranking? Maybe a couple of men should sign up to play in the WNBA. I’m sure Griner would welcome the wholesome competition.

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  4. Columbo Inactive
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  5. Eustace C. Scrubb Member
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    EODmom (View Comment):

    I’d like my poker playing brother in law to employ the new strategy and register as a woman to play in the women’s poker tournaments. Wouldn’t that raise his ranking? Maybe a couple of men should sign up to play in the WNBA. Im sue Griner would welcome the wholesome competition.

    Griner has said she would welcome Trans (Pretend) Women into the WNBA. May it be so.

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  6. Ekosj Member
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    I’m reminded of something from the 1973 film Bang the Drum Slowly

    A rookie baseball player is lured into a clubhouse card game with some of the veteran players.    The game is a complicated game called “Tegwar”

    Throughout the film, no matter how hard he tries the rookie can’t master the shifting rules and continues losing money … game after game after game.

    It turns out that there are no rules except ‘take the rookie’s money.’   So whatever scenario will allow a veteran to win a pile of the rook’s money are ‘the rules’ for today.

    We are in a game of Tegwar with the Left.

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  7. Painter Jean Moderator
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    One way to fight this madness is to employ these tactics whenever possible. Making a mockery of the Left’s identity lunacy is effective as well as just plain funny – kudos to Mr./Ms. Webb!

    And stop calling me Shirley.

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  8. Old Bathos Member
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    As many of you may know, on most weekdays I identify as Louise, a lesbian of color, and on most weekends as Raoul, a 6’5″ Latino bodybuilder.  My pronouns are Who/Whomever.  I acknowledge the 12-15 tribes/bands who were denied the right to continue to kill each other over the appropriated land I now occupy as home.  When my preferred identities are not deployed, I confess that I am not conscious of my whiteness as a mere societal default yet also acutely aware of my whiteness and its fragility.  I am unable to fly nor consume uranium even though gravity is a social construct and my health is racially privileged.  2+2 really can be five.  I demand a trigger warning before the use of hate speech like “normal” or “sane”  Chlorpromazine is facism…

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  9. Vance Richards Inactive
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    Dr. Bastiat: Surely they anticipated the problems with identity politics, once they decided that anyone can change their identity at any time.

    And if white privilege is really a thing, why don’t more people simply identify as white? A dark skinned white person is still more believable than a woman with a penis.

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  10. Red Herring Coolidge
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    Perhaps doctors should treat the trans guy like a girl. Tell him to remove clothing, lie down on the table, put his feet in the stirrups, then grab that cold metal contraption. 

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  11. Fake John/Jane Galt Coolidge
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    If I could I would vote for this guy.

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  12. Doug Watt Member
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    I suspect that most of the women that advocate for transgender inclusion for men in their sports are reaching the end of their own careers on the playing field. In other words, they won’t have to compete with men. It allows them to remain in the spotlight and remain relevant with virtue signaling. They’ve already earned their medals, trophies, and money in their respective sports. 

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  13. Rōnin Coolidge
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    Painter Jean (View Comment):

    One way to fight this madness is to employ these tactics whenever possible. Making a mockery of the Left’s identity lunacy is effective as well as just plain funny – kudos to Mr./Ms. Webb!

    And stop calling me Shirley.

    beat me to it.

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  14. Bishop Wash Member
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    Doug Watt (View Comment):

    I suspect that most of the women that advocate for transgender inclusion for men in their sports are reaching the end of their own careers on the playing field. In other words, they won’t have to compete with men. It allows them to remain in the spotlight and remain relevant with virtue signaling. They’ve already earned their medals, trophies, and money in their respective sports.

    Riley Gaines called out Megan Rapinoe for just that. 

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  15. Painter Jean Moderator
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    Doug Watt (View Comment):

    I suspect that most of the women that advocate for transgender inclusion for men in their sports are reaching the end of their own careers on the playing field. In other words, they won’t have to compete with men. It allows them to remain in the spotlight and remain relevant with virtue signaling. They’ve already earned their medals, trophies, and money in their respective sports.

    Spot on, Doug. 

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  16. Miffed White Male Member
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    EODmom (View Comment):

    I’d like my poker playing brother in law to employ the new strategy and register as a woman to play in the women’s poker tournaments. Wouldn’t that raise his ranking? Maybe a couple of men should sign up to play in the WNBA. I’m sure Griner would welcome the wholesome competition.

    Why are there separate tournaments for men’s and women’s poker?

    Is there some gender difference/ability that can be exploited?

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  17. Columbo Inactive
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    Doug Watt (View Comment):

    I suspect that most of the women that advocate for transgender inclusion for men in their sports are reaching the end of their own careers on the playing field. In other words, they won’t have to compete with men. It allows them to remain in the spotlight and remain relevant with virtue signaling. They’ve already earned their medals, trophies, and money in their respective sports.

    One notable exception from this all too accurate depiction should be called out for her courage on bucking the accepted virtue signaling … Martina Navratilova [link].

    You men! Get the hell out of women’s sports!

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  18. Vance Richards Inactive
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    Columbo (View Comment):

    Doug Watt (View Comment):

    I suspect that most of the women that advocate for transgender inclusion for men in their sports are reaching the end of their own careers on the playing field. In other words, they won’t have to compete with men. It allows them to remain in the spotlight and remain relevant with virtue signaling. They’ve already earned their medals, trophies, and money in their respective sports.

    One notable exception from this all too accurate depiction should be called out for her courage on bucking the accepted virtue signaling … Martina Navratilova [link].

    You men! Get the hell out of women’s sports!

    And she was coached by Renee Richards

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  19. Columbo Inactive
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    Vance Richards (View Comment):

    Columbo (View Comment):

    Doug Watt (View Comment):

    I suspect that most of the women that advocate for transgender inclusion for men in their sports are reaching the end of their own careers on the playing field. In other words, they won’t have to compete with men. It allows them to remain in the spotlight and remain relevant with virtue signaling. They’ve already earned their medals, trophies, and money in their respective sports.

    One notable exception from this all too accurate depiction should be called out for her courage on bucking the accepted virtue signaling … Martina Navratilova [link].

    You men! Get the hell out of women’s sports!

    And she was coached by Renee Richards

    You can’t make this stuff up!

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  20. MarciN Member
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    We live in strange times. :)

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  21. Stad Coolidge
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    Vance Richards (View Comment):

    Dr. Bastiat: Surely they anticipated the problems with identity politics, once they decided that anyone can change their identity at any time.

    And if white privilege is really a thing, why don’t more people simply identify as white? A dark skinned white person is still more believable than a woman with a penis.

    That’s it!  All blacks should identify as white and then they’d have access to our privilege!

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  22. Cazzy Member
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    The problem is that it’s all a power game. I truly wish they cared about the inconsistencies and cognitive dissonance. I agree that we need to push back, and humor is great. But we need to gain and exercise power without apology, same as they do. 

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  23. DaveSchmidt Coolidge
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    DonG (CAGW is a Scam) (View Comment):

    Dr. Bastiat: And if they didn’t anticipate that, Rachel tried to explain it to them years ago, the way Mr. Webb is now.

     

    Mr?

    They’ll be calling for Dr. Bastiat’s head on a pike. 

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  24. Dr. Bastiat Member
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    DaveSchmidt (View Comment):

    DonG (CAGW is a Scam) (View Comment):

    Dr. Bastiat: And if they didn’t anticipate that, Rachel tried to explain it to them years ago, the way Mr. Webb is now.

     

    Mr?

    They’ll be calling for Dr. Bastiat’s head on a pike.

    They can’t touch me.  I’m a black lesbian too.

    At least, I think that’s how this works… 

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  25. Fritz Coolidge
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    Cazzy (View Comment):

    The problem is that it’s all a power game. I truly wish they cared about the inconsistencies and cognitive dissonance. I agree that we need to push back, and humor is great. But we need to gain and exercise power without apology, same as they do.

    This ^^^ the power game. That is the point of it all, the unifying theory that makes congruent all the leftist insanity with all its irrationality and contradictions.

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  26. Morley Stevenson Member
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    We’re all black lesbians now.

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  27. Vance Richards Inactive
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    Stad (View Comment):

    Vance Richards (View Comment):

    Dr. Bastiat: Surely they anticipated the problems with identity politics, once they decided that anyone can change their identity at any time.

    And if white privilege is really a thing, why don’t more people simply identify as white? A dark skinned white person is still more believable than a woman with a penis.

    That’s it! All blacks should identify as white and then they’d have access to our privilege!

    You’ll notice that even Obama, who was born to a white woman and raised by his white mother and white grandparents, only identifies as black. Affirmative action > White privilege.

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  28. Goldwaterwoman Thatcher
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    Dr. Bastiat: Surely they anticipated the problems with identity politics, once they decided that anyone can change their identity at any time. 

    I believe our identity is defined in the womb, but I do admit to questioning the identity of a  few people I’ve seen, especially in the last couple of years. I honestly and truly couldn’t tell the identity of the person who checked me out yesterday  at the grocery store.  What befuddles me is whether that person intentionally achieved that look or was born that way. In either case, something went haywire along the way.

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  29. Henry Castaigne Member
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    Vance Richards (View Comment):

    Stad (View Comment):

    Vance Richards (View Comment):

    Dr. Bastiat: Surely they anticipated the problems with identity politics, once they decided that anyone can change their identity at any time.

    And if white privilege is really a thing, why don’t more people simply identify as white? A dark skinned white person is still more believable than a woman with a penis.

    That’s it! All blacks should identify as white and then they’d have access to our privilege!

    You’ll notice that even Obama, who was born to a white woman and raised by his white mother and white grandparents, only identifies as black. Affirmative action > White privilege.

    That always bothered me. The idea that a half-white half-black person was all black came from slavery so slave owners could keep light-skinned slaves. I also feel it is wrong to deny the heritage of one of your parents. Especially if it is the side that fed, raised and educated you.

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  30. DaveSchmidt Coolidge
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    Fake John/Jane Galt (View Comment):

    If I could I would vote for this guy.

    If zee was a Democrat, you could. 

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