Yeah, that's exactly my point. They are for some people but they shouldn't be. The same goes for treating skin colour or sexuality or gender as identities. This wrong-headed, tribal way of thinking is why so many issues have become impossibly divisive.
Because if you see a challenge to your ideas as a challenge to who you are, or different perspectives as existential threats, you get...well, the state of discourse today.
Slight pushback: in the USA "conservative", "liberal", "progressive", "MAGA" etc ARE becoming identities of themselves.
Yeah, that's exactly my point. They are for some people but they shouldn't be. The same goes for treating skin colour or sexuality or gender as identities. This wrong-headed, tribal way of thinking is why so many issues have become impossibly divisive.
Because if you see a challenge to your ideas as a challenge to who you are, or different perspectives as existential threats, you get...well, the state of discourse today.