Three Ways to View Identity

Racial and sexual identity completely determine thoughts and behavior. The world is divided into white male oppressors and people of color, who engage in a perpetual struggle that has historically been won by the whites. Truth is determined by power, but anything a member of an historically oppressed person says is presumptively correct, and anything a white person thinks or says is presumptively false, because it reflects his white privilege.

Racial and sexual identity are important, and oppression is a genuine historical fact whose impact is still felt today, but people are complex, and cannot be reduced to simple racial and sexual categories. Both Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis were white men, but they didn’t think in the same way.

All people are legally equal and should be treated that way, regardless of the past. Any form of oppression is long since dead and buried and is no longer relevant today. People of color, women, and sexual deviants use the past as a weapon to demand special treatment to which they are not entitled. Today, it is straight white people who are oppressed by the government, which incorrectly treats them as morons and bigots.

If you believe #1, you are woke. If you believe #2, you are a liberal. If your favorite narrative is #3, you are a reactionary.