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Culture War Roundup for the week of November 13, 2023

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Please tell me which group I can join as a straight, white American man? That's the most specific ethnic group I am a member of. I can't join the local Polish, Swedish, or Italian lodge. I am not those things. Basically, we're telling 20% of people in the US that they aren't allowed to have a grievance identity but everyone else is.

Please tell me which group I can join as a straight, white American man?

The republican Party? your local church group? the VFW? the Chive?

I find it difficult to believe that this question is being asked sincerely, and if it is, well fuck there is your problem. If you're defining yourself in terms of grievance and identity politics and expecting that to provide you with validation, you've already fucked up.

You are correct that I am not looking to join an identity grievance group.

That's why I want all the other identity grievance groups (which represent something like 80% of the population) to disband. Especially when some of the groups (like the ADL) represent people who are far more privileged than the group I belong to.

When a huge majority of the population is represented by a grievance group, it stops become about defending the rights of minorities and starts becoming about discriminating against the one minority that can't join one.

You need to accept that you can't contol what you can't control. Associate with people worth associating with and let the rest go.

There are plenty of mostly white groups that stick up for their members(lots of cultural Christian or rural groups, for example), and while progressives may not like them very much it also won’t get you canceled to join them.

Sure you can. It's just called the Club. It's just based on economic class rather than race; but anyone in the club is HwHite by association. The poor whites (the trash ones, that is. Everyone with less than 10 million dollars) are supposed to act as foot soldiers for their betters and not get uppity.

If you want a group basic on your racial identity and only your racial identity, you can found one. It's be pretty incoherent though, because if you are allowed in I am also allowed in, and I am a communist and also probably not actually the same race as you. eg, the Mut category isn't a recognized breed.

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