Hmmmm. You're being too kind to it (and yes, I realize Michael Sherlock, if that's his name, is an arse!)
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And Shermer, Rubin and so many others. All given Neo-Nazism a soft pass.
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Replying to @Humanisticus
If I think that identity politics tends to polarize & drive people into entrenched positions, does that make me a racist?
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Replying to @PhilosophyExp
Don't think anyone called Shermer a racist. Just that he was wrong and blaming the victim.
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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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Replying to @PhilosophyExp
All of them are identity politics. LGBT movement and so on. All polarising?
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Replying to @Humanisticus
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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Replying to @PhilosophyExp
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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politics (as I understand it). Merely organizing around identities is not enough. I've never accepted the trope that all politics is...
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