I feel like over the past few years I've seen more and more instances where LGBT people are asking for representation in things that other groups don't really have or ask for representation in, for example wanting LGBT cosmetics in video games. Can't they just be a part of a something without trying to subdivide it into "people who are doing x" and "people who are doing x, and are also LGBT"?

Do they realize that when they ask for stuff like that that they're also painting a huge target on their backs, especially in video games? Lately in the Helldivers 2 community, there has been a lot of aggressive back and forth between people who want LGBT cosmetics (capes, armor) and people who don't. Do they not understand that they're setting themselves up to be teamkilled and kicked from matches simply for wearing those cosmetics? Is that what they want? To be represented so they can get teamkilled/kicked so they can cry out that they're being oppressed? It's starting to feel to me that they want representation just so other people will discriminate against them so they can play the victim card for attention.

Why can't they just play the game or belong to a community? Why do they need to tell other people what their sexual preferences are? Why is it so paramount to them to be able to tell people "Hey, I'm gay/trans/pansexual/etc.! Look at me!" Why can't we all just be a part of something, but keep all those extra special details about our lives to ourselves?

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 10 posts:

• "Welp, SIJA just got banned" by u/AdMechAddict
• "2 Blacks Girls Charged With Hate Crimes for Attacking Woman on MTA Bus" by u/History_buff02
• "The left forgets that communists are homophobic" by u/History_buff02
• "Turning Point USA issues cease and desist to ABC News over ‘defamatory statements’ on ‘The View’" by u/kanjibytes
• "Is ‘Lightyear’ too “Woke”? Or are there other reasons why the latest Pixar movie flopped?" by u/kanjibytes
• "Xavier is a cisgender boy (WTF)" by u/kanjibytes
• "Many everyday items are described as “flesh” and “nude” in color. Whose skin color do they represent?" by u/kanjibytes
• "Welcome to the new r/ThisIsNotASafeSpace, please wipe your feet before entering." by u/TheHat2
• "‘Radical chic’ and the left’s problem with race" by u/kanjibytes
• "‘The Boys: unwatchable, sexually depraved, softcore fetish porn, political agenda-driven drivel" by u/kanjibytes

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Really Reddit?

EDIT: is this going to become a replacement or did all the mods get banned

This sub is finally open for business again.

Previously, TINASS (god, I love that acronym) was being used exclusively for content related to identity politics and the sort on college campuses. The idea of "safe spaces" was bigger at the time, so naturally, the sub was created to call that shit out.

Several months back, I realized that I was the last mod on the list here. No idea why or what happened, but the sub was apparently mine by default. Seeing as nobody was really posting here anymore, I locked the sub up in case it needed to be used again someday.

That day has finally come.

Not gonna mince words or ideas here—the purpose of TINASS is to be a sub for discussion about idpol, intersectionality, social justice, and etc., but with more hands-on moderation. Basically, think of it as r/SocialJusticeInAction, but with a tighter leash. Or r/CulturalDivide with a longer leash. It's the vanilla in-between the chocolate and strawberry—something I think most people can agree tastes alright. Some people prefer that flavor of subreddit, and this is for them.

Enjoy your stay, and don't break anything while you're here.

Change my Mind

Let me be more clear. Whiteness and White Privilege are social constructs created by non-white people for the purpose of...

1. Affirming their own racial identity.
2. Creating a common enemy to reduce tension within their own groups.
3. Justifying government entitlements, which are codified privileges, not afforded to white people.
4. And a lot more stuff, but I think this paints the picture nicely.

In a nutshell: non-white people need white people to exist to validate themselves, while white people do not need the same from them.

And except for a few very misguided individuals of light skin color who cling to such nonsense as White Culture and White Nationalism, white people have no fear of losing their identity. Because there is no white identity.

White people have no common heritage, no common ethnicity, and white isn't a race. And in fact, something that is too often lost in the conversation, is that white people make up the most diverse group of peoples in the world, ranging far and wide from all over the Western and Near Eastern world.

White people have the most diversity in skin color, eye color, hair color, body type, facial features, languages, histories, and nationalities.

While non-white people tend to have the least amount of diversity in all those categories and exhibit the greatest tendency towards ethnocentrism and tribalism.

The whole idea of "white" is a figment of the the imagination in the minds of those who subscribe to identity politics, whether rooted in Leftist or White Supremacist ideologies.

And that is why racism will never end, because of those people who need it to affirm their own group identity. It won't end until they give it up and recognize that they are the ones perpetuating the problem and find some other way to define themselves.