Magus, you are thinking about this all wrong. You are an individual. Individuals are irrelevant to the analysis. This is about groups.
It doesn't matter what you have done, or even what an ancestor has done. What matters is that you have been assigned to a group, and that group has been charged with causing an inequity to another group, and things must be set "right" at the group level, and individuals are irrelevant to that goal.
Now, many Democrats do not think this way, but their votes are being harvested by people who do think this way: Individual humans have the same political importance as an ant does to a freeway construction crew, which is to say, they aren't considered when the goal is being accomplished. Individuals are entirely irrelevant to the task. The task is to address group equities/inequities...and individuals be damned if necessary. They just don't care if a white male individual complains. Your complaint is that crunching sound drowned out by the noise of the tank tread. They do, however, care about your opinion as a group of white males, which is why they always talk about white supremacy. And, so, perversely, they are motivating individuals to join such groups as a means of protection. This seems totally insane to a normal person, but they are creating groups which they can fight, because they need an enemy to push their agenda. Otherwise, we would all just be happy individuals, minding our own business. They need groups to oppose, to keep their own groups focused and in lock-step (and continue to harvest their votes...keep them on the voting plantation). Group opposition is the fuel for the tank's engine. So, joining one of their opposition groups can give them more fuel.
In a society in which individual freedom is valued, a justice system is built to maximize justice to each individual. That has been the American way, with notable exceptions such as slavery. But, in a society in which group power is valued over individual freedom (where group exploitation is the norm, not the exception), a justice system (or a tax system, or a regulation system) does not care about just outcomes for individuals. Rather, a group-oriented justice system would ask, "what group did the accused perpetrator belong to" and "what group did the alleged victim belong to." If necessary, due to the relative equities of the groups involved, the individuals will be switched, such that perpetrator becomes victim, and victim becomes perpetrator, not because of anything in particular regarding the individuals in question, but only because of the equities of the groups involved.
Put another way:
- In traditional America, justice requires that we know the individuals involved and the individual actions they took. Once you know that, you can apply the law and a system of morals to the individuals to achieve justice. And, you should do this without knowing the group identities involved (which is why Lady Justice is traditionally shown blindfolded as she holds the scales of justice).
- But, in the minds of these race mongers, the individuals are not the fundamental unit of society; groups are. Individuals are merely levers which can be used to control a group. In their justice system (or their tax system, etc.), you must know the group identities involved before you can make any decision about an event. Individual acts are irrelevant to morality or justice; group identity is paramount.
America was obviously built on individual freedoms. So the thinking of these people is foreign (literally, un-American). But, it is very important to understand how they think (and that there is a continuum of this thought, from mere voters to their leaders).
Individuals have freedom (or not). Groups have power (or not). Groups don't really have
objective freedoms...groups only have
relative power compared to other groups (equities). Groups can be defined in various ways (e.g., by static characteristics like skin color are often useful to prevent people from using their brains to switch sides), but groups are primarily judged by their ability to provide and use power.
You, Magus, have been assigned to a group, and your group has been targeted in the present, because such targeting aids in the acquisition of political power. It has nothing to do with you as an individual. (It isn't personal. It's just politics.) This is a type of communist thinking, where the individual is irrelevant to policy making. Many of them deny being communists, but to use an (in)famous line: if you put lipstick on a pig, it is still a pig.
My solution requires the 20somethings and 30somethings to value individual freedoms for all, more than themselves being in a group that has power and perceived righteousness. I'm not sure if my solution is viable, at least in the short term. I do fear that we are on a path away from individual freedom as a value.
