I did like his documentaries back in the say. Very
opinionated, but he made goods points, it was a view about recent history.
I mean, silicon valley and the corporate surveillance&manipulation society
was built by
those people... the road to hell is paved with good intentions, some say. And while I still believe in good intentions, one should be very critical of those carrying them, check carefully before throwing one's support into a cause. Where is it going to lead to?
Why shouldn't i bring that up as a point of contention within the LGBT community?
Do a reality check. There is no such thing as a LGBT community, dude. There are many communities in that space and some political groups using that label for their own purposes. What brief unity of purpose might have existed in breaking down some social restriction is long gone, as those are gone. You are militating for delusions. And being used.
Your self-worth cannot depend on you being member of any one particular community. What is natural is for you to be member of many. And have responsibilities towards many. If you want to feel virtuous, and I do think that is a humane and good thing to desire, do your best for who may need among those many communities. You'll find that sometimes you know people with entirely opposite views, among those different communities your life touches, and they are not evil for it, nor less deserving of help when in need. Participating and helping widely is one of the most effective ways to reconcile, approach, or change what were opposite views.
People fail to understand the political logic behind the so-called "identity politics". By encouraging groups of people to concentrate their activity solely on one particular cause, those who control overarching political organizations (in the context of the us, the two big political parties) gain more power. They become the sole group capable of organizing an influence block with real political weight out of these many disparate groups. Those groups do not talk to each other on their own, they do it under the umbrella of some big party, they place themselves at the mercy of their organization. I do not think that the rise of "identity politics" was an accident. They were encouraged because it is a damn convenient way of managing people by an upper caste. Of curtailing the independent initiative that might lead to wider alliances and challenges to those managing that top organization.