... 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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Replying to @burtonad
The latter would be the liberals. Those who address racial inequality without identity politics & critical race theory nonsense.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
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...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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... 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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Replying to @burtonad
But that's not identity politics. That's just liberalism. Identity politics is a very specific thing.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Really? To you, perhaps. But I don't think everyone does (or should) define it the same way.
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Intersectionals would have us believe that theirs is the only way to address imbalances but it is not. They are the identity politicians.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @burtonad
The vast majority supports anti-discrimination laws & projects to get rid of barriers to disadvantaged groups. This isn't based on identity.
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This is the universal liberalism that intersectionals deny.
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