Among the many reasons I despise group identities, because of which and with reasonable pragmatism, I am willing do anything to avoid being associated with such identities, are the most often-seen properties of such identities, that is neglecting the evils and weaknesses and shortcomings of the groups, while only ever and everywhere bragging of and showing off the virtues of it.
But I also understand that any hope of a group that has an ability of self-criticism, or at least an ability of being objective with its “good” and “bad”, is a hope in vain.
Groups, religious or nationalistic or linguistic or ethnic or you name it, are founded based on a principle of “we-are-essentially-and-necessarily-better-than-them”; and hence that is the morality of it. You can’t speak reason with a group representative, who is “morally superior”.
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