Like all bigots of the past, you think that your judgment is justified.
What was wrong with the judgements and bigotry of the past wasn’t that they identified the wrong group. And maybe if they had just got the group right, like I have, it would have been fine.
You’re setting yourself up, not to address or deal with individuals in your life and your relationships, but for collective action against a group. That’s not living. That’s war. That’s blind aggression.
The lesson of history isn’t that the people of the past picked the wrong people as the enemy. The lesson of history is that we can’t afford not to treat and judge people as individuals. Because we are going to judge. There is no way around that. The question is, are we going to accept easy and reductive heuristics, or are we going focus on the content of each person’s character?
Identity politics is bigotry. It is the war of the gods. It is primitive tribalism. And it doesn’t matter that you’ve picked a different tribe, or picked the underdog or the alpha in this situation or that. You can’t buy virtue that cheaply. You can’t reduce moral judgment to that simple of a formula.
You have to think. You have to do the hard work. You have to judge. You have to treat people as people, as agents. You have to treat faith as a matter of individual conscience, not as a matter of group filial connections or inheritance or deterministic identity or subjective historical positions. You have to become wise.
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