identity politics as a narcissistic trend

I agree with this....

“what it happening or emerging is not a disregard but a disbelief in the reality of roots, which creates the delusion or evil that the stem-and-branches are somehow their own root, or their own account.”

 

This is what happens with critical theory.  But there is an inconsistency with critical theory, too, which shows that no matter how much it tries to disavow its primitive impulses (and indeed human primitive impulses overall) to make them go away, it is all the more victim to them perhaps for that reason.

 

In critical theory (and believe me, I studied almost nothing else as an undergraduate), all peoples are good and bright and sunny, no matter how vile their practices (for instance female genital mutilation can be seen in a relativistic light), but Western colonialism alone is Absolute Evil.

 

Well, we they can assert that critical theory is has moved from a darkened mood of ontology into an enlightened one of epistemology and that everything is now just a theory of knowledge and stands without judgment as to people’s purported “essences”, but of course this constant stamping down of the EMBLEMS of colonialism (for instance myself) rather than even its ACTUALITY (the racism that exists in Australia today) is a sign of pathological superficiality.

 

I will accept that not all of critical theory is pathological, but much of it is, just because its adherents are extremely superficial and wish to increase their status through behavior that is offensively superficial whilst at the same time demanding that others see them as way above and beyond making any judgments about anybody (the demand to be seen as morally angelic).  Identity politicians, in particular, put a lot of demands on you to see them in a certain way, but it is never a two-way street.  They demand from you and they take things, but they never reciprocate in the same manner by giving something back.

 

Therefore I see identity politics as a narcissistic trend or mood, deceiving people about what actually knowledge is and taking them away from history.