My take: Identity politics isn't bad. The FACT that people are turning to identity politics is bad. But the people doing it aren't to blame.
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Replying to @Noahpinion
I get it, this is an Enlightened Take if you're committed both to the idea that minorities and feminists are rational people (1/x)
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Replying to @csilverandgold @Noahpinion
And to the idea that what is healthiest for a nation is unity and common national identity. But if our common national ID masked (2/x)
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A white/white male identity politics, that becomes another question, no? To me the question is...
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Does your identity politics serve hegemony or equality? Not "are your politics identity politics"? (4/4)
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My beef w/recent form of identity politics is that too many think it's separate from economics.
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Replying to @katiecannon2 @Noahpinion
That's facts. A line I've heard in social justice spaces is "if it's not accessible to the poor it is neither radical nor revolutionary."
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But not enough people do a good job of walking out that idea.
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I think it's telling -> the assumption is that only radical or revolutionary ideas are valuable.
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