I am primarily an environmentalist, as well as antiwar. I get fed up with conferences where everyone must name their pronouns, and with strategy sessions where all we can talk about is identity stuff, mostly buzzwords. On the other hand, It used to be the case that every protest or gathering was 99% white (I do live in a very white region) and I noticed that well-paid top positions in many organization were filled by males, while the people doing the day to day work were about 75% female. I've seen notable improvement in both those things, and we DO need to grow into a diverse, massive united movement to make change. We just can't afford to spend all out time talking about this when the world's on fire.
I think it's very true that this aspect of the culture wars, as well as others, is deliberately and carefully crafted by agents of the ruling class to distract us from the real war.
I am primarily an environmentalist, as well as antiwar. I get fed up with conferences where everyone must name their pronouns, and with strategy sessions where all we can talk about is identity stuff, mostly buzzwords. On the other hand, It used to be the case that every protest or gathering was 99% white (I do live in a very white region) and I noticed that well-paid top positions in many organization were filled by males, while the people doing the day to day work were about 75% female. I've seen notable improvement in both those things, and we DO need to grow into a diverse, massive united movement to make change. We just can't afford to spend all out time talking about this when the world's on fire.
I think it's very true that this aspect of the culture wars, as well as others, is deliberately and carefully crafted by agents of the ruling class to distract us from the real war.