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by chasd00 2174 days ago
Leaders of "justice" movements want power. The best way to get power is to make an outside group the enemy and tell your followers their problems are only because of the enemy. Next, you position yourself as having the answer and if your followers will only continue doing what you say then they will be lifted, their problems will subside, and the enemy vanquished. As long as you can keep an enemy front and center and your followers problems never subside your power will continue to grow.

it's the oldest playbook in humanity.

2 comments

You write this in a way that implicitly dismisses the Cause of various social justice movements as indistinguishable from any group with leaders. Are you claiming that there's no difference between Black Lives Matters and Jim Jones' church?
It's a little hard to act like they're being disingenuous when the supposed enemy acts in ways that are completely consistent with being an actual enemy, though. Only when the supposed enemy is not.