Posted on Mar 21, 2019
Retired U.S. Army General: 'Identity Politics Is a Cancer'
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Yes identity politics has created such a huge mess in American culture. How did it begin? Think of this statement McFarland made:
“And I mean I just heard a statistic recently that about 80 percent of American kids consider themselves as just plain old Americans before they enter high school, and about two-thirds of them about halfway through college become hyphenated-Americans.”
Why does the hyphenated categorization exist? Decades of segregation politics. How hard would it be to remove those categories from the education system, census system, political system, business employment system, and yes the government/military system. My daughters are mixed and I plan to have them check “other” since it’s not accurate to call them Black/African-American just cause they are half Black. Identity politics is a result of outdated immigration system that sought to classify people.
“And I mean I just heard a statistic recently that about 80 percent of American kids consider themselves as just plain old Americans before they enter high school, and about two-thirds of them about halfway through college become hyphenated-Americans.”
Why does the hyphenated categorization exist? Decades of segregation politics. How hard would it be to remove those categories from the education system, census system, political system, business employment system, and yes the government/military system. My daughters are mixed and I plan to have them check “other” since it’s not accurate to call them Black/African-American just cause they are half Black. Identity politics is a result of outdated immigration system that sought to classify people.
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