>>7274925>>7275589OK, I'll rise to the bait. Very kek-worthy that you are trying to blame the crazy excesses of feminism on individualism and the right... but understandable that some of the left wouldn't want to be associated with such things.
Couldn't disagree more with you though. It's almost certainly a synthesis/symbiosis. Yet the collectives of identity politics are rooted in individualism only superficially.
Identity groups like "woman" or "black" or "LGBT" exist as symbols of a given person's identity, and they reproduce themselves through enforcing group membership based on skin colour, bodies, feelings - things that people recognise in themselves on an individual level...
This is exactly how you would go about collectivising a highly individualistic society... by creating collectives which take on the trappings of the self (and therefore are willingly maintained by 'members' through 'self-interest').
It works particularly well because the identity collectives have relationships with other collectives which can appear to mirror individual relationships with other individuals. Believing in and advancing the goals of the collective could therefore feel like a means to change individual life.
Although it's clear that things can go terribly wrong with this sort of thinking. Reading abstract hierarchical relationships between collectives into real world relationships between one person and another always has to be tempered with critical thought and communication...
