(06-28-2020, 05:55 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Identity based on immutable characteristics is not the same as ideology. He could have been more clear, but I think this is his point.

You're right.
Ideology is just a collection of causes that a political party can unify around for a time.
But you and JIB don't apply this knowledge correctly.
You both build part of your identity around your ideology.
And you both assume people have either the same ideology as you, or one that is opposite on nearly every point, the way you dismissively and pejoritively use words like "socialist" or "liberal" or "progressive" to describe other posters.
These identities you ascribe to others can become every bit as corrosive as the opposing racial identities we already see out there.
You are what you do.  Not what you wish the government would do.

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