"According to the tenets of social justice, Powers’s lived experience and multiple minority status should have made her unassailable on the topic of her own people’s oppression, and anyone who tried to use Powers’s identity to discredit her should have been roundly condemned."
This right here is the problem. The entire victim identity st…
"According to the tenets of social justice, Powers’s lived experience and multiple minority status should have made her unassailable on the topic of her own people’s oppression, and anyone who tried to use Powers’s identity to discredit her should have been roundly condemned."
This right here is the problem. The entire victim identity status hierarchy is BS. No one who participates in it (by, say, taking a job as a diversity inclusion officer) should be surprised when the alligator decides to eat them next.
I so agree with you, Helen. My husband and I have been fighting anti-Christianism for decades now, trying to warn the Jewish community (of which we are part) that standing up for Christians and Christianity when they were defamed and attacked wasn't only the right thing to do but also the necessary thing if we didn't want to be next on the list. Some people listened but others are still myopically focused. If you are into 'inclusion' today, it means you are into despising some people. It's not a game any decent person should be playing.
This is an issue that needs to be addressed. Many liberals stand by when Christians are attacked and their rights abridged because they are usually not religious themselves or believe that it is those other religious people that they view as primitive. Yet our first amendment rights are bound together and once one is eliminated, the others are on the block.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Her person of Color +1 points were cancelled out by her Jewish "privilege", -1 points. Though being a female got her another point. Don't know if she is gay.
This is a bit more like multiplication than addition. Being Jewish gets you a zero score, you're always in the wrong -- unless you reject most of what it means to be Jewish.
"According to the tenets of social justice, Powers’s lived experience and multiple minority status should have made her unassailable on the topic of her own people’s oppression, and anyone who tried to use Powers’s identity to discredit her should have been roundly condemned."
This right here is the problem. The entire victim identity status hierarchy is BS. No one who participates in it (by, say, taking a job as a diversity inclusion officer) should be surprised when the alligator decides to eat them next.
I so agree with you, Helen. My husband and I have been fighting anti-Christianism for decades now, trying to warn the Jewish community (of which we are part) that standing up for Christians and Christianity when they were defamed and attacked wasn't only the right thing to do but also the necessary thing if we didn't want to be next on the list. Some people listened but others are still myopically focused. If you are into 'inclusion' today, it means you are into despising some people. It's not a game any decent person should be playing.
Inclusion, in theory, does not mean despising some people.
In practice, despising some people is a big part of where it is in 2023.
This is an issue that needs to be addressed. Many liberals stand by when Christians are attacked and their rights abridged because they are usually not religious themselves or believe that it is those other religious people that they view as primitive. Yet our first amendment rights are bound together and once one is eliminated, the others are on the block.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
"The entire victim identity status hierarchy is BS." In my opinion identity status is the 21st century equivalent of segregation.
I agree.
Her person of Color +1 points were cancelled out by her Jewish "privilege", -1 points. Though being a female got her another point. Don't know if she is gay.
More like -10 points for being Jewish.
sad but true.
This is a bit more like multiplication than addition. Being Jewish gets you a zero score, you're always in the wrong -- unless you reject most of what it means to be Jewish.