I whole-heartedly believe that the rise in identity politics is done on purpose for malicious reasoning. It's easier to control divided groups of people than a unified group.
Yeah, absolutely. I remember seeing an image showing that media coverage of racism rose dramatically in the aftermath of the occupy wall street movement; I'd post it if I could find it. Regardless, it's definitely part of a divide and conquer strategy with the added benefit of keeping people distracted from potentially more serious issues.
Anyways, while the whole culture war thing obviously took off years earlier, I just found it interesting that I remember a reignited interest in identity politics circa 2019 because it's almost as if preparations were being made to roll out the pandemic and the accompanying riots the following year. I mean, organizations with an apparent interest in public health have held several "pandemic preparation" exercises throughout the years but there was a greater concentration of them in 2019 for some reason and, touching on the topic of the declining quality and growing censorship of the internet around that time, in the Event 201 exercise they specifically address the importance of controlling the narrative on social media platforms as to curb "misinformation", etc. I just feel a lot of it had to do with advancing the idea that there's certain things you can and cannot say which again, ultimately makes it easier to maintain control over everyone.
There's no way corporations that spend millions of dollars in researching what the public wants don't know that people don't want identity politics and constant reminders of racism forced down their throat. The covid pandemic just put things into overdrive.
It could be a reach but I honestly think that, similarly to how the pandemic was almost certainly extremely profitable to all the wealthy people making enormous investments into pharmaceuticals, the heightened focus on identity politics and the like at the time also has to have been profitable in some regard. Like I said before, I remember at the time there was a push to "destigmatize" drugs, porn, etc. -- there was also a push for "mental health awareness" and more talk surrounding gender relations. Regardless of what people may actually think of these issues, I think what they have in common is that they can all somehow be profitable (especially for the pharmaceutical industry, similarly to the pandemic). Obviously, a lot of the gays, trannies, and people with substance dependencies are easy lifetime patients you can sell more drugs and procedures to. The idea of "sex positivity" encourages more people to consume pornography, leads more women to develop an interest in becoming prostitutes, and increases the demand for contraceptives, abortion, and similar substances or procedures. Even "mental health awareness" is seemingly just a front to put more people on bullshit like SSRIs.
i believe the push in identity politics is also in order to make people want the rights of certain individuals taken away
make, say, legbutts annoying enough and eventually people will go "ok, fine, you can take away their rights" and suddenly it's a slippery slope, it's fair game to do the same to everyone
I think it's been used as a means to force people to take sides and more easily control the swing of the pendulum too. It further reinfornces the false left right dichotomy and undermines the already basically useless choice people have: women and minorities are expected to default to the liberal candidate whereas straight white men are pushed towards conservatism. It also allows you to have people who are fiercely loyal to one side, like the trannies who are convinced that anyone right of center will have them killed on sight.
