spiderwort@lemm.ee to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 6 months agoIdentity politics and universal pseudonymity arose at the same time.message-squaremessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up12arrow-down13
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minus-squarespiderwort@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down5·edit-26 months agoBut it didn’t become a big thing till the last decade, IE when we all got on social media. A hundred genders. New pronouns. This is a new thing.
minus-squarezbyte64@awful.systemslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoThere has always been hundreds of genders, and it’s always been a political lynch pin: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/lgbtq-institute-in-germany-was-burned-down-by-nazis
minus-squareI_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoDo you mean gender identity? That’s not the same thing as identity politics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics
minus-squarespiderwort@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down4·edit-26 months agoNope, I mean identity politics. IE popular concern for the details and ramifications of identity, so great that it rises into the political realm. Tell me that you didn’t notice.
minus-squarespiderwort@lemm.eeOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down4·6 months agohey look the monkeys are upvoting you
minus-squarezbyte64@awful.systemslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months ago Everybody that disagrees with me is because of their identity politics
minus-squareS_204@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2arrow-down2·6 months agoThere’s been like 9 variations of gender in the Hebrew biblical books for thousands of years… This isn’t new, but the bigotry towards it is. Kinda like how being Homo was fine in Roman times but not in Confederate times. Hate is a social construct.
But it didn’t become a big thing till the last decade, IE when we all got on social media.
A hundred genders. New pronouns. This is a new thing.
There has always been hundreds of genders, and it’s always been a political lynch pin: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/lgbtq-institute-in-germany-was-burned-down-by-nazis
Do you mean gender identity? That’s not the same thing as identity politics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics
Nope, I mean identity politics. IE popular concern for the details and ramifications of identity, so great that it rises into the political realm.
Tell me that you didn’t notice.
hey look the monkeys are upvoting you
There’s been like 9 variations of gender in the Hebrew biblical books for thousands of years…
This isn’t new, but the bigotry towards it is. Kinda like how being Homo was fine in Roman times but not in Confederate times. Hate is a social construct.