The way I see it, the identitarians want us to focus on identity (i.e. race, sexuality etc) in order to segregate our society into us vs them.

We are currently in a war of left vs right. The left want us to make it racial, sexual etc... i.e. identity.

There are plenty of non-white, non-straight conservatives out there. By making this a racial issue we are alienating a good portion of the conservative supporters that we need in order to win.

As soon as we start playing the racial/sexual/identity angle then we are playing their game where the rules are all set up against us.

Instead we should be decrying the focus on identity and instead focus on non-identitarian issues and argue the point and not the man.

I think this is what u/Ham_Sandwich77 is trying to achieve and explain to people.

We should not give a shit about the race or other characteristics of people. Instead we should be focusing on their beliefs and ideas.

There are plenty of white people who don't support conservatism. There are plenty of non-white people who do support conservatism.

It's ideas that matter, not the identity of the person who expresses those ideas.

If you want to focus on identity then you are no different from the leftist identitarians.

We will never win by playing the identity game. We win with better ideas.

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The way I see it, the identitarians want us to focus on identity (i.e. race, sexuality etc) in order to segregate our society into us vs them.

We are currently in a war of left vs right. The left want us to make it racial, sexual etc... i.e. identity.

There are plenty of non-white, non-straight conservatives out there. By making this a racial issue we are alienating a good portion of the conservative supporters that we need in order to win.

As soon as we start playing the racial/sexual/identity angle then we are playing their game where the rules are all set up against us.

Instead we should be decrying focusing on non-identitarian issues and argue the point and not the man.

I think this is what u/Ham_Sandwich77 is trying to achieve and explain to people.

We should not give a shit about the race or other characteristics of people. Instead we should be focusing on their beliefs and ideas.

There are plenty of white people who don't support conservatism. There are plenty of non-white people who do support conservatism.

It's ideas that matter, not the identity of the person who expresses those ideas.

If you want to focus on identity then you are no different from the leftist identitarians.

We will never win by playing the identity game. We win with better ideas.