Will We Ever Eradicate the Cancer of Identity Politics?

[Right_in_Virginia]

Will We Ever Eradicate the Cancer of Identity Politics?
Newsweek, Jan 29, 2022, Josh Hammer

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court finally granted a writ of certiorari in two now-consolidated affirmative action cases, Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard College and Students for Fair Admissions v. University of North Carolina. The cases will be jointly argued during the next Supreme Court term, and they place directly in their crosshairs the Court's noxious precedents in the thorny area of race-conscious university admission policies. As presented to the Court, the leading question the justices will consider is "whether the Supreme Court should...hold that institutions of higher education cannot use race as a factor in admissions."

The Court should of course do so posthaste. The propagandist assertion that America in the year 2022 is bedeviled by a sprawling, pan-institutional "systemic racism" is a destructive lie, but the ubiquity of affirmative action means that university admissions offices do, in fact, propagate systemic racism. Fortunately, there is reason for optimism that the justices will do their job. It was the mercurial Chief Justice John Roberts himself who, in the 2007 case of Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle, penned perhaps his most iconic line: "The way to stop discrimination on the basis of race is to stop discriminating on the basis of race."

But by Wednesday afternoon, Monday's propitious step forward toward an America no longer obsessed with race and identity politics was abruptly undermined by a severe step backward toward a race-centric polity. Justice Stephen Breyer, an octogenarian Jewish male and the senior statesman of the Court's liberal bloc, announced his retirement, effective at the end of this Court term and contingent upon the successful confirmation of his successor. The announcement was hardly surprising; given Breyer's long-standing Democratic ties, his liberal jurisprudence and the fact that Republicans are poised to retake control of the U.S. Senate this fall, it would have been more surprising if Breyer had not retired this year.

The more interesting twist came after news broke of the impending retirement: President Joe Biden affirmed that he intends to fulfill his 2020 campaign promise to nominate a black woman—not a black man, not a Hispanic woman, but specifically a black woman—to replace the retiring Jewish male justice.

There is only one way to describe crass identity politics operationalized at this high a political level: Evil.


More:  https://www.newsweek.com/will-we-ever-eradicate-cancer-identity-politics-opinion-1673816

[Fishrrman]

Hammer:
"Will We Ever Eradicate the Cancer of Identity Politics?"

No.
Nor should we.

As Fishrrman's dialectic goes:
You may not be interested in the politics of ethnicity and race.
But the politics of ethnicity and race are VERY MUCH "interested"... in YOU.

It is only whites who cannot fathom this.
The other races and ethnicities understand "group identity" as a matter of course and a matter of "their nature". To admonish them to do otherwise would be to insult them and would probably be interpreted as "white racism".

In the America that existed until around the mid-1960's -- that is to say, the America that existed before "immigration reform" -- "identity politics" was not an issue because there were [essentially] only two major racial/ethnic groups in the country: whites of Euro heritage, and blacks. And by and large the two groups didn't mix -- not in the North (where blacks were relegated mostly to urban areas) nor in the South (where blacks and whites were able to live in relative proximity, but were governed by a set of protocols known collectively as "Jim Crow" that are today derided as "racist").

Today, with an influx of Asians, muslims, Hispanics, the pre-60's "equilibrium" has been shattered, with all these new groups introduced into the cauldron.

Whites aren't going to entice the newcomers to subjugate the identities they embrace to something based upon a history comprised of old white Euro men with whom the newcomers feel no kinship (because in fact they have none).

Remember the Rodney King riots? And the pics of the Koreans on the roof?
How many white guys did you see up there with them?

If the country is to have a future, it is the white Euros who must step forward and claim THEIR "identity", which in truth is the identity upon which Western Civilization in general, and the United States in particular, is based.

Whites should make no apologies, grant no concessions.
We are who we are.
If you don't like it, too bad.
But we won't be changing.

That's the only pathway to a future by which Western Civilization survives.

Aside:
I wonder if we have let so many "unlike ourselves" in that it may becoming impossible to secure such a future for the entire nation. Perhaps the best option would be for "a separation" and creation of a separate "new nation" that re-embraces our former cultural ideals, a new "Heartland" or homeland for traditional-minded [former] Americans of Euro heritage.

Is it time for that new Continental Congress yet...?

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Outside our family and religion, the only identity we need in this country is being an American.  Not color, ethnicity, gender, conservative/liberal. 

Failing that, we should look at only our own state for our identity, or more properly put, our culture.

Anything else pulls us apart, not together.

[Smokin Joe]

Outside our family and religion, the only identity we need in this country is being an American.  Not color, ethnicity, gender, conservative/liberal. 

Failing that, we should look at only our own state for our identity, or more properly put, our culture.

Anything else pulls us apart, not together.

Exactly. Otherwise, what is now known as America will not survive as a Nation.

Being American has to come first, and not with some hyphenated prefix, either.