They view themselves above sin.
You are not special because you are ______ and your shit most definitely stinks like the rest of us.
This is the frustration of the reset poster for me. Stripping out the identifier / trait / group or whatever and it holds true so often. It's a key to understanding why we can't just instantly group more than one person in to 'good' / 'bad' / 'neutral' with any reliability. Pretty much all humans operate along a wild spectrum of good and bad, right and wrong, and any rule you think you find can be broken.
Thing is, you can still point fingers at problems even if you admit that you yourself are flawed. It's a foolish pride that pretends otherwise.
What's going on in Reset and Twitter circles is the final approximation of identity politics.
Once you build hierarchies based on who is most oppressed those very same people will feel they are a virtuous good that can't do anything wrong. Once that happens you percieve other groups as being unable to experience or understand the pain you feel because you're most oppressed. If attention is put on another group then that is seen as undercutting your own struggles and puts a crack into the idea that because you are oppressed that other people don't have it bad as well. Let's be real: trans and black people are an oppressed minority group in USA, but they're not the only ones that have a boot on their neck. Furthermore, it is human to suffer.
Identity politics needs to die. Building hierarchies based on who has it bad takes away from those issues because rather than solving real issues, you instead focus on groups. Also, since it's a hierarchy it's also human to maintain that power: the oppressed become professional victims.
Identity politics is a symptom not a cause. Just like the built back better cult that replaced religion and intervention among the political class in a last ditch effort to justify their actions.
Identity politics always follows when society has no meaning anymore and its values are rejected. See Yugoslavia post Tito, historical bonds (often artificially created I might add) erased, traditions banned and the grim reality slowly seeping in.
Same with Moscow in the 90's, anarchy followed by identity politics. The insurgency in Iraq that ended up in ISIS. People often compare things to Nazi Germany but in reality the Weimar Republic, Balkans or the collapse of the Soviet Union would be more apt as a comparison to these times.
The pandemic froze everything but also unearthed the deep rooted problems in the fabric of our current society. It is too late to change things now.
All we can do is wait for the inevitable explosion and after everyone is tired of the fighting a new society will come to be. What that world will look like is up to us.
I don't entirely agree. For me it's a lack of empathy towards other peoples struggles and needs.
A common argument made by (mostly) black men when comparing lgbtq struggle against black struggle is,"they are nothing like me, I can't hide being black the way they can hide being gay." This is a horrific and "problematic" argument purely because it supposes that there's nothing wrong with hiding your true love. The two are comparable
because they can hide it. It's a people discriminated against to the point where they have to hide whom they love because of what would happen if they expressed that love pubicly. That's pretty bad on a scale of things in terms of discrimination. But no, it's only about our black pain. Our black struggle, when others are struggling too. Never mind black gay people's existence. Furthermore, it's a bad argument wholesale because we can just flip it and bring up interracial relationships instead. A black man or woman dating a white person could be harassed purely because they are dating, no different than a gay couple.
This is exactly what I'm talking about: someone dismissing others' stories because of their place in the victimhood hierarchy.
I'm not sure what comparisons to Soviet's or anything has to do with this. I can only assume you're arguing this point from outside looking in because these arguments are decades old.
