Thoughts on Social Justice Warriors, Identity Politics and Tribalism in Politics

David Paquiot
Sep 4, 2018 · 4 min read
Illustration by Joe Magee as seen in the Guardian’s: How America’s identity politics went from inclusion to division

The greatness of an idea isn’t enough of a guarantee that its implementation will be great also. For example, that “all men created equal” is an inspiring idea so amazingly progressive for its time. So too is the belief that our Creator has endowed us all with certain unalienable rights. While never whole-hearted implemented, both of these lofty ideals…

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David Paquiot

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I write to escape finding myself in the ranks of the insane. I'm dead inside like Gore Vidal and a public intellectual kind of how Dr. Phil's a real doctor.

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