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It's interesting that you put the people with those "behaviors" or "passions" as the agents who have switched to "identity". In reality, it's the oppressors who "identified" them.

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Indeed. There's a huge gap between an identity that you apply to yourself and an identity that is wielded against you. The labels used to be "normal" vs "illegal", and you can still see weaponized labels being chucked around ("groomer" and "paedo" especially).

It's the gap between being forced to wear a pink star as a prelude to being taken to a concentration camp vs in a freer society choosing to wear one.

That is such an excellent summary of a concept I've only recently started to realize and it seems so obvious in hindsight. I'm pretty sure it's never going to get through to the people that would need to hear it in order for the world to change though.

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