In Australia, atm, the “current thing” is the Aboriginal Voice to Parliament, aka an unelected third chamber in our national parliament, further dividing the country by race…
Aaand I’ve already lost leftist social media “friends” over it. Not by posting about it. Not even by commenting. But by “liking” posts and/or pages that they disagree with…
“Be on the right side of history”, they cry, while steadily restricting their “friends” to only those who think exactly the same…
It’s bizarre. It really is utterly bizarre.
I don’t tend to do the same, on my end, because, I guess I’m not so “intolerant” of differing views. So I just find the whole idea rather bizarre…
Then again, the kind of people to “proudly” have politics in their profile pics/on their homepages are probably not the types you want around, anyway…
I just find it bizarre, though.
And these are graduates, for fuck’s sake.
No wonder things are so fucked, lol.
Reminds me of a small town near where I used to live. Many turned JW and suddenly there was a third, unelected and unofficial, party in the county. Anyone who knows JW's knows how they make people shun friends that are not JW's. All they want is people being on the right side when armageddon comes they say. They proudly display their crosses and symbols on their person and in their profiles.
I find both instances of identity politics equally sad. NPC's be sheep though.