This sort of asinine, duplicitous, hyperbolic nonsense is (partly) why the American left is utterly lost: https://medium.com/danthropology/when-did-online-atheism-get-into-bed-with-the-neo-nazi-movement-d6e3cb49e3f1 …
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Don't think anyone called Shermer a racist. Just that he was wrong and blaming the victim.
Oh people have called a racist - easy to find. But if his position is that identity politics is polarizing, and that's a worry - he's right.
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All of them are identity politics. LGBT movement and so on. All polarising?
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If they stress what divides them from other people - if they set up relations of inclusion & exclusion - then yes, they will polarize.
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Now you're adding qualifiers "if they do X,Y, and Z" when before it was just a blanket "identity politics".
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No, my qualifiers were about the movements you identified as "identity politics" - not about identity politics.
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Ok. So you don't agree that those movements are classified as identity politics?
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If those organizations are pursuing policies that emphasize and valorize their identities to the exclusion of other identities, if they...
End of conversation
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People tend to falsely define "identity politics" as "identity politics" I don't like. Secular orgs, March for Science, civil rights etc.
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