In my experience, this is rarely said by minority people. Most often (not invariably) by conservative whites.
Well, yes, although identity politics seems to be worsening the problem for the first time in decades.
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Definitions matter. Is "identity politics" heavy on intersectionality/critical race theory? Or is it acknowledging that people who ...
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... assert that "Black Lives Matter" aren't making a trivial assertion, but are pointing to a continuing inequity in American society?
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The latter would be the liberals. Those who address racial inequality without identity politics & critical race theory nonsense.
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See what you did there?
If "identity politics" is a project for a tiny few - mostly academics in universities - it's split off from the... -
... mainstream of the Left (or liberal, if you prefer) project. In similar fashion, racism, if only practiced by a tiny handful of ...
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... outright bigots, can be split off from the Right. Both are splinters from the larger body.
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Yes. I just co-wrote a manifesto arguing this.https://areomagazine.com/2017/08/22/a-manifesto-against-the-enemies-of-modernity/amp/ …
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Mmm-hmm. Which gets us back close to my original point - I think there are some nasty traps in seeing identity politics (in the sense ...
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