Why do SJWs focus on "identity" and power?

[Dylan]

Narcissism.

I don't just mean that in the dismissive Boomer sense of the term, I mean your average SJW is someone who never quite finished a crucial step in maturation from the teenager stage. "Identity" is me. Me me me. It can only relate to things through the lens of Me. We live in the era of therapy and Live Your Truth and Practice Self-Care, and I think there's a danger in over-preaching that to someone who, at the end of the day, already unhealthily puts themselves first. All of this gender shit is Tumblr headmates and "multiple personalities" writ large. "Nonbinary" is just the next stage of the stupid shit teenagers do. "I am above, I am beyond, I cannot be contained, I cannot be classified, I am the beginning and end, there are no words fabulous enough to describe me" is the core thrust of this whole thing.

It's the thrashing of someone who's stuck at 15.

Essentially this.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Because it’s a remarkably useful rallying cry.

 

[Absolutego]

Left wing politics have basically been a constant struggle session about power dynamics ever since the urbane New Left types took over that side of the political spectrum in the mid 1960's.
I blame the French, because it's their academics who brought that philosophy into left-wing politics over worker's rights/government support programs.

 

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I blame the French, because it's their academics who brought that philosophy into left-wing politics over worker's rights/government support programs.

Pretty much. It was essentialism (Marx) vs. social constructivism (the French) and the French won.

That development was always funny to me since the French had this little side plot of "yes, little boys CAN consent to sex" and everyone just kinda...ignored it. You'd think Foucault railing 8-year olds in Tunisia might've raised some red flags. Oh well.

 

[KingCoelacanth]

Its a method to game Democracy. "Power to the people" but if you say that the majority of the people are evil, then you can redefine the metrics people use to measure how well a democracy is working.
In a democracy, people *should* be entitled to their government working in their interests, but sjw identity politics let the government say "we have to focus on the .01% of the population who are afro-latinx trans women before we can even think of broader topics."
It creates a system where the government or party defines the people, rather than the people defining the government.

 

[Angry Alt Right Nerd]

Maybe you should focus on power more too considering how much complaining you've recently been doing about things you could solve if you weren't powerless.

 

[WitchfyndeGeneral]

It’s 2 factors.
1. Because their suburban childhoods are so fucking boring, mundane, plain and peaceful, they wanted some excitement to fill their boredom. In addition, their neocon boomer parents try to ingrain in them that politicians are to be respected due to their power, which as a consequence made the millennial SJWs as teens resent their parents because of people like George Bush JR and his Neocon tyranny. As a result, many Millennials had begun embracing anti-American ideologies to spite the neocons (and you have to consider that TSA are so evil that it made a generation of young people resent America). So, because their shitty parents forced their kids to respect shitty people, these shitty children became shitty SJW adults who focused on skin color because their lives are so fucking boring and at the time time, ridden with extreme neocons.

2, Another factor you have to consider is Marxism/Maoism like what Christopher Rufo and James Lindsay have said many times. Because the current form of Marxism/Maoism being pushed on is not based on class but by ethnicity and sexuality. Hence why identity and LGBT stuff is the core of the identity of a typical Commie SJW. So, once again, the shit Neocons have done like starting the TSA made Millennial embrace the anti-American Marxism and to make this revenge ideology work. they swapped class in favor of Racial identities (e.g White people being the role of the “Bourgeoisie”, and blacks people being the role of “Proletariat”) and now they almost have control of our country ready to overthrow anytime.

 

[Groon]

Because they are to stupid to focus in WEALTH and power.

 

[JustSomeDong]

Weaponising narcissism. Putting self-interest above the collective well being of society, while deceiving useful idiots to loudly conflate them as being the same thing. They've enouraged righteous indignation for every little thing, and people who feel righteous indignation are capable of astonishing acts, including violence, with very little thought. Every fucking retard now thinks what's best for them is best for everyone, and they're only to happy to scream at you and try to force you to comply in any way they can. Through speech, through violence, through economic warfare, and by using the letter of the law to violate the spirit of the law. When a critical mass of that forms, society can no longer decide on its collective path. Fractures form, conflict arises. Violence ensues. Purity spirals and ethnic/religious/political cleansing occurs. Violent relocations of people occur.


We are probably already way beyond this point.
Its gonna be fun on a bun.