Identity Politics as Theft Justification

People increasingly invoke identity‑based grievances to justify taking others' property or imposing costs on private actors, collapsing the line between boycott/critique and theft. That rhetorical move treats voluntary association as equivalent to state tyranny, normalizing extralegal punishments against disliked actors. — If normalized, this logic undermines property rights, complicates protest policing and corporate moderation, and shifts responsibility from political persuasion to punitive expropriation.