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Crip Dyke's avatar

There are so many variations on the concept, "People of color are the real racists," that it's always a bit surprising when some white guy feels the need to come up with yet another. "Identity synthesis"? Dude, was there really no off-the-shelf way to blame all your problems on the Blacks?

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On the one hand, they have serious concerns regarding the new ideas and norms about race, gender and sexual orientation that have quickly been adopted by universities and nonprofit organizations, corporations and even some religious communities.

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Well, I have good news for you. All you have to do is be kind to other people and you won’t have an issue even if you think Jehovah only made male and female and somehow all of the XX males and XY females and intersex persons are just the product of doctors’ imaginations.

All you have to fucking do to get by in this world and be well thought of is call Debbie “Debbie” because she wants to be called Debbie now and not David.

It’s that fucking easy. Even if you privately think that Debbie is out of her gourd. You just have to be nice and respectful.

I know. Such an incredible burden on you, inn’t it?

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Like Mr. Weinstein, they believe that practices like separating people into different groups according to race are deeply counterproductive.

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We don’t live in a perfect world. As a pale person, I generally do not have to worry that being pulled over by the police is going to end for me with a fucking beating and execution. As a heterosexual cis male, I don’t have to worry about the government outlawing my marriage, controlling my body, and telling me I can’t exist. Maybe… and I know I sound bloody well crazy… if we fix those teensy issues and all the others like them, racial, gender, and minority group divisions won’t be as important.

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[C]ritics of the identity synthesis should claim the moral high ground and recognize that their opposition to the identity synthesis is of a piece with a noble tradition that was passed down through the generations from Douglass to Lincoln to King…

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Are you fucking kidding me?

Fredrick Douglass basically walked in front of white audiences and calmly hurled shame and invective at them like a goddamned Old Testament prophet. The people were moved because he was fucking right. He was a living, breathing testament to the cruelty of slavery and a rebuke to any notion of white supremacy.

If he gave a speech today, Fox News and the right would lump him in with Farrakhan as a crazy, racist, and dangerous Black man.

Fuck you.

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To avoid following the path charted by Mr. Weinstein...

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Take responsibility for your words. Listen to the people you hurt with your words. Be a bigger man and reflect on your position based on this new persepective and knowledge and, oh yes, DON'T BE A FUCKING FASCIST PIG OR GIVE AID AND COMFORT TO NAZIS.

Fuck you again.

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