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This don't go well when group-identity becomes identity-politics.
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IDENTITY POLITICS, EMPATHY, AND REASON
A person striving for freedom becomes more and more a unique and creative individuality.
Free human beings develop their own traits and roles for their own reasons.
But the view that a human being is able to develop into a completely independent free individuality seems to be contradicted by the facts.
By no choice of our own, we are born into a race, an ethnicity, a gender, a family, a nation and often a religion.
As a result of our birth we acquire the characteristics and identity of a group.
If we choose to become a free self-determined individuality we must create our own self-identity.
Our self-identity is created with thought.
Thinking has no limits.
This means our individual-identity has no limits.
Our group-identity confines us within the limitations of the group and groupthink.
Our individual-identity allows us to form our own views, and strive to become who we wish.
There are now many university studies programs offered to learn about various group identities and experiences of race, ethnicity, being a women, and gender sexuality.
None of this kind of academic research is able to reach the unique character of the single individual.
The only way to understand an individuality is to listen to their view of the world and observe their striving.
There is a need for our universities to also offer students “Individuality Studies” programs.
Many people lack the ability to recognize a person’s unique individuality, and instead only see stereotypical group-identities.
Individuality Studies could move students beyond the often divisive group-identity, and toward our common humanity as individuals.
Some professors and politicians are turning group-identity into identity-politics to incite outrage.
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