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Originally Posted by FiftyBelow
Sadly, this is what happens when there's an obsession and fixation with identity politics throughout the spectrum, both left and right. All these marches, whether white nationalist marches, black lives matter marches, or dare I say, even some of the rhetoric with various feminist, same-sex and trans movements, present a harmful and divisive zero-sum narrative that people buy into. Us against them.
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The difference is that at the heart of BLM (despite various extremists that you'll find in any group) is the idea that black people in America are tired of being incarcerated unfairly/killed by police/kept in a cycle of poverty, etc.
At the heart of feminist marches, there is the idea that women want to be treated equally, are tired of having their rights infringed upon, being left out of the conversation about their own healthcare, etc.
At the heart of pride parades there's the idea that who you love shouldn't matter, that you should be allowed to marry whomever you choose (assuming legal age/consent and all that), be able to be whoever you are, whatever that gender or sexual identity is, and work and live and love without fear of being harmed/fired/evicted.
All these other groups aren't asking for a zero sum game. They don't want to
take away the rights of those holding the most power (in America, it's still way easier to be white, and especially male, than anything else. Poor white is still better than poor black. They just want to have those same rights that whites/white men have had all along.
A white supremacist rally, when almost all of the wealthiest people in America are white, when almost all of the politicians in America are white, when almost all of the CEOs in America are white, on and on ad nauseum--is utterly ridiculous.
No one is taking away "white America's" identity. This movement is solely meant as an attempt to keep "others"--people of color, immigrants (legal or otherwise), gay people, trans people--beneath them.