I don't think of white men or black men or brown women as a victim group or a privileged group. But certainly there are white men and black men and brown women who get an unlucky roll of the dice in life. And certainly some are victims of circumstance. And some of injustice etc.
That's life.
But assigning victimhood to a whole group is a sort of stereotyping. Accepting victimhood status is a kind of surrender. It also tends to create the thing that the victim group fears.
And if you make political parties out of victim groups based on skin colour or sex or sexuality and corral them by defining them as such, then you should expect the other party to do likewise. If black people have complaints, don't be surprised to discover white men and brown women doing something similar.
It's not irony. It's learning. If the squeaky wheel gets the oil, all the wheels are going to squeak. This is what identity politics creates.
This is why I said during the election that I thought it was unhealthy that so many black people vote Democrat. It's why I also push back against the assumption that black victims of white policemen are necessarily innocent - yes, they may be, but they may not be also. It's why I take the positions I do on issues related to sex and sexuality also.
Listen to the facts on a case by case basis. If one is concerned by injustice, one ought to be concerned by injustice regardless of skin colour, sex or sexuality. But if everyone is a victim, no one is. You just end up with a needy voting population.
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