Identity Police

I have taken a casual interest in the "GamerGate" tempest because it seems to be a complete microcosm of the entire culture war currently raging beneath the radar of "low information" folks. It has all the elements of the overall Leftist class war, including messiahism, designated Victimhood, and designated Oppressor Class. Only in GamerGate, the names are different: the messiahs are "social justice warriors" (SJWs), a suitably pompous self appellation; the Victimhood class is the ever-popular female sex as a generic victimhood class; and anyone else falls into the designated Oppressor Class, called GamerGaters (I think that's how it works).

Apparently GamerGate has attracted outsiders who participate as SJWs and possibly some who participate as GamerGaters. It seems, from the outside anyway, that the Victimhood group is presupposed, after some trigger incident which is no longer pertinent to the current conversation.

Now the SJWs are also "Identity Police", not actually a new category but an interesting twist. A conversation grabbed by Vox Day shows the new inclusion. Blacks have long been Identity Police, designating wrong thinkers as "not black enough" or "Uncle Toms", while Obama the half-black has been plenty black enough to vote for.

Now wrong thinking homosexuals are "not really Gay". And Vox recalls someone declaring Margaret Thatcher not a female:

"I remember a prominent feminist member of the faculty standing up and saying that "Margaret Thatcher was not of the gender woman" due to her offensive politics".

We already know that "all men are rapists" and "all whites are racist; but blacks cannot be racist", and other wisdom from the AtheoLeft. Now we also know that your very biological sex and sexual preference can be removed, as well as your color and membership in the human race.

After a while the designated Oppressor Class will cover so many humans (ex-humans?) that very few will remain in either the designated Victimhood class or the Messiah class. It's tempting to think that there should be enough of us in the ex-human/Oppressor class to smudge out the messiahs, especially since, in the west anyway, the messiahs are all mouth and no substance. Or are they? Obama has systematically turned the Armed Forces into a hot bed of politically correct, top down messiahs by firing those generals, admirals, colonels, etc. who do not subscribe to the PC messiah dogma. What is left is anybody's guess, but it cannot be good because like all messiahs, it is insanity personified. And what with the government making tens of billions of dollars in secret purchases recently, who knows what they are up to?

When the next two years are over, we will know. Unless the Chinese become our masters first, that is.