Humans Don’t Have Lanes, But Race and Gender Cops Want Us to Stay in Them

At the top of the list of identitarian contradictions is the belief that race and gender are social constructs, but we all must stay in the lanes for our race and gender.

They are right about their premise—for as long as the ideas of race and gender have existed, people have pointed out their artificial nature. Every society has its own gender roles, and every society interprets the idea of race differently. If you doubt me, look at women’s roles in Afghanistan and Norway, or compare the American idea that a black person is anyone with visible African heritage with the African idea that a black person looks purely African.

Terence the Playwright—whose race we do not know because ancient cultures divided people by tribe, not race—wrote, “I am human; nothing human is alien to me.”

But to identity cops, we are aliens.

The most annoying thing about their belief is they don’t practice what they preach. They tell us to stay in our lanes, but they don’t stay in their own. Female identitarians love ranting about men just as much as old school male sexists love ranting about women. Black identitarians love ranting about white people just as much as old school white racists love ranting about black people.

Their double standard reveals their true nature. Authoritarians always have one rule for themselves and another for the rest of us. When they say, “Stay in your lane,” they are not stating a general code of conduct. They’re trying to confuse their critics to shut them up. They don’t want to talk about the simplest facts:

We are all human.

Our lane is the human lane.

The glory of the only race, the human race, is we are constantly pushing back the boundaries that confine us.