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Do you think he has it wrong here? What would you say instead?
He doesn't offer any principled basis for who's allowed to practice identity politics and who isn't.
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This article isn't very good, but the criticisms have missed the point too. Jeffrey Sachs has listed a bunch of "if water is good, how does drowning fit in" type of jokes, but the core issue here is people are talking about different things.
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White nationalism is not good or bad because it is identity politics, it is bad because it advocates for white supremacy and hierarchies of human worth, an those who can access a particular location (broadly, "America") and is thus illiberal and unethical.
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“It is a measure of contemporary confusion that so many on the left imagine that an approach that draws upon ideas of group identity that lie at the heart of racial thinking can challenge inequality and injustice“
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I genuinely do not know where the criticisms of this article are coming from. On race and identity Malik has been consistently right over the past three decades.
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