Even some blogs I like on Tumblr are full of some daft bullshit.

So let’s extend this further:

1) No one who is not Hutu should blog/write/show images of the Rwandan genocide. Yeah, that’ll help!

2) No one who is not Armenian should mention the Armenian genocide because that’s…cultural appropriation? I’m not sure what this idiot’s point is, exactly.

This is the danger of identity politics. I know, it’s lefty suicide to rail against identity politics, but how it’s practiced is an instantiation and perfect example of the right’s divide and conquer politics it has used successfully in the US for over 150 years.

The professional right actually loves identity politics and encourages it because leads to these sort of divisions.

I don’t even know what my heritage is other than mostly white, so I am not sure what I am “allowed” to write about exactly.

Nor do I fucking care because I will write about what I want.

This whole article from 2003 is darkly hilarious in retrospect.

To an amazing degree, the Baghdad-based press corps avoids writing about or filming the friendly dealings between U.S. forces here and the local population–most likely because to do so would require them to report the extravagant expressions of gratitude that accompany every such encounter.

Right. We know how that went.

On another note, there is something very wrong with the WordPress install or something related to this blog, so I might be deleting and restoring everything soon. Different articles appear if you go to www.technologyasnature.com vs. technologyasnature.com. No idea why, nor do I care to troubleshoot it.