In a world in which minority people weren't often structurally disadvantaged, or treated differently by individuals, we could all ...
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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... of being aware of systematic, structural, cultural patterns that continue to make it harder for disadvantaged groups and individuals...
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But that's not identity politics. That's just liberalism. Identity politics is a very specific thing.
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Really? To you, perhaps. But I don't think everyone does (or should) define it the same way.
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