It's a dangerous direction because it moves into identity politics. The sovereignty of the individual is replaced by that of the group if travelling down that road which may well end up causing many of the problems it seeks to prevent. It is also too embedded in history - like
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Oh, noes! "Identity politics"! You do realize, don't you, that all politics is identity politics.
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Replying to @gorskon
Some people say that, but that's a fundamental misunderstanding. In the West - broadly speaking through the Christian faith - the individual is sovereign. We do not judge an individual upon their group in the main. Indeed, doing so is classified - sensibly as racism or sexism.
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So it's a real sleight of hand to put people in neat 'identity groups' and pretend that's different from any other racist, sexist, etc stereo-typing. The only difference is identity politics does this based on 'victimhood' but the implication is they're victim to other groups
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Identity politics is a political approach wherein people of a particular gender, religion, race, social background, class or other identifying factors, develop political agendas that are based upon theoretical interlocking systems of oppression based on various identities.
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By this definition, the right and Trump supporters are masters of identity politics and Trump was a far more effective practitioner than anyone on the left.
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I didn't say anything about left or right. I am strongly against Trumpian politics and I do see that the right wing employ a deceptive form of identity politics - true.
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The right are also heavily guilty of cancel culture but unfortunately they largely own the narrative - due to the right-wing media and the type of people who support them. So I'm not advocating right wing politics in any way. If anything I prefer the left version. But that still
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misses some real risks around identity politics. It kind of shifts the whole topic into power vs oppression and I think that's a dangerous field to play on.
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Of course, not discussing power vs. oppression leaves the oppressors free to continue to keep things the way they are. That is the true goal behind the rants against "identity politics."
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But isn't this the also the battle of the centre or centre left vs the right? Identity politics is one way you might perceive of fighting it - but centre-left governments fight the same battle against inequality but on different terms, no?
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