Identity politics - immoral?

[Vonsalza]

One of the byproducts of identity politics is that it divides social groups and sows distrust. It pits one group against another, by first defining those groups in terms that can and do contribute to division.

This sounds an awful lot like the work of the evil one. Is identity politics evil? Are you committing a sin by supporting such positions? Should it be confessed as such?

As it is a purely exclusionary approach, it needs to go into the trash bin. But the political parties do love their bases… For good or bad.

 

[Tis_Bearself]

Are we really living in a country where you can lose your job/livelihood for LACKING GOOD JUDGEMENT. Really!

As a professional in the workplace, I am paid for my judgment about what to do in certain situations. People come to me for advice on how to solve problems they have, and I have to advise them. That is how I make money to pay my bills and eat and take care of my family. This is also a normal activity for a professional in the workplace - most of us are in the business of using our judgment to resolve some type of problem and conduct ourselves in a professional manner.

I have been in past interviews where the interviewer said the quality he was looking for the most in a candidate was good judgment.

I have no idea why you would think this was some weird concept. Good judgment, which is basically just self-discipline and conducting yourself in a manner guided by reason, is also a synonym for “Prudence”, which is one of the four cardinal virtues that all Christians should strive for, and was extensively discussed by St. Thomas Aquinas.

As a side note, I don’t believe the man I mentioned cited anything about nuclear families or one man, one woman, so I am not sure how that crept into the conversation, except that it comes up on every single thread on this board. We could be talking about ice cream and people would bring up marriage and gays. It’s frankly a bit odd.