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Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14
I really have a hard time buying into the importance of identity politics in a time where hundreds are dead. Killing masses of innocent people is abhorrent. I dont care if it's at a mosque, a gay nightclub or a LARPing convention.
My thoughts are with the remaining families that didn't get to have an Easter dinner with their loved ones.
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Identity politics is the tendency for people who identify or sympathize with specific groups, to base their politics on their allegiance to those groups and form alliances around them.
We are discussing fundamentals of freedom of religion and association. When a minority group, be it religious, sexuality, ethnic, etc.. is targeted. It's a big deal.
Your statement trivializes not only what these people in Indonesia are going through, but also what the experiences of the victims of the Christchurch Mosque attack in New Zealand, the Pulse nightclub in Florida, etc...We all accept that any mass murder is horrible. There's another level of reverberation through a community, when they've been targeted due to religious beliefs, sexuality, ethnicity, etc....The effects on those communities are far more profound.