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Hatred, demonisation and the treatment of large swathes of society as
backward are key elements of the politics of identity. It is not an
accident that many identitarians hold extremely intolerant views of
certain social groups. They are not going ‘off-script’ when they
casually write off white people or straight people or Christians as
dickheads, supremacists, ignorant, evil, etc. Rather, such a callous
painting of ordinary people as ‘problematic’, as creatures to be wary
of, is central to this politics that relies for its very survival on the
idea that minority groups are victimised and thus require help and
flattery from those in authority. For in order to sustain this
beneficial status as ‘victim group’, identitarians must continually
construct a fantasy army of victimisers. Their social and
political status is utterly dependent on their ability to depict other
people, ordinary people, you and me, as horrible, hateful, and perilous
to their identity or their ‘existence’. The fuel of their worldview is
fear and hatred of others, of us. ................................Identity politics is the midwife of misanthropy. Imagine going about
your daily life thinking all white people are racist, ‘white men’ are
trash, most Christians are homophobic, the country is riddled with
transphobic prejudice; imagine how fretful you would be, how scared of
your fellow man, how consumed by disdain you would become for the
citizens of your own nation. This is the identitarian mindset. This is
how they view society, how they must view society: they fear it, and hate it."
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