I'm seeing more and more posts focusing on race in a negative light, and it's getting really disheartening to see so much IDPol on here. We're supposed to be focusing on Making America Great. That means great for everyone. But it's starting to feel more and more like a lot of people here only want it great for White Americans. It's like the left cut us out a villain shaped niche, and slowly we're filling it.

I started coming here because I was sick of the Left's Identity Politics game, and since the Election, I've just seen more and more of it creep here, just from the opposite end. Black Americans claim hate crimes on Asian Americans are the responsibility of White Americans? The response is overwhelmingly racially focused. "I hope we see Roof Koreans again before the year is out." or something to that effect. Don't get me wrong, it was funny the first time or two. But after a point, it just gets really depressing; Edgy jokes are only edgy jokes if you don't mean it, even if there is a kernel of truth to it.

I want to believe that we're not gonna purity spiral into the toilet, because I don't want to see that. I don't want race to be a matter of politics. I don't want to look at my Black friends and think "Wow, he probably thinks X thing." or look at my Asian friends and think "I wonder if he's on 'our' side." because that's just reinforcing the negative things that I wanted to escape from the left, and that's not who I am as a person. I don't judge individuals based on their skin color, and I don't want other people to do that to me. I don't want someone to look at me and think "Wow, look at this hateful white prick. Look at how easy he's got it and how hard I do, and how mean he is to me because of it." Or whatever wild bullshit the left thinks of white people right now.

Downvote me if you've gotta, I respect it, I just can't help but feel like this is wrong behavior. Not wrongthink. Just the beginnings of a bad habit.