Don’t get me wrong, identity is important. Even on the internet it can make sense in certain contexts like if you have a community for people of that group. There’s a time and a place for that.

But in most contexts it’s really unimportant in internet conversations.

But with the rise in social media it’s become the most important thing on the internet to the point where people can’t express ideas or accept an idea without it being connected to a person’s identity. Back in the day when everyone was pseudo-anonymous there was a death of the author kind of thing on everything so it was 100% about ideas and 0% about identity.