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I think the core of my disgust with identity politics is that I always liked a worldview that firmly valued assuming nothing about a person on first glance. "Don't judge a book by its cover" was one of my early fav aphorisms as a kid
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I've lived lots of lives, in 7 states, mostly quite privately and quietly, at times so poor that I slept on the kitchen floor behind a screen & at other times living with full financial freedom. I've met all sorts of people, and not one could be reduced to demographic identifiers
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The last thing I want is for anyone to look at me and see "woman — probably harassed, probably mistreated at work or undervalued, maybe at some point raped." The very idea that individuals are to be known by their risk factors for oppression is unethical
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That and MLK's dream that I thought we had agreed to help make come true. "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
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Embedded in the identity worldview is the belief that there is no point learning and constantly becoming a better version of yourself because everything that is important about you was determined at birth. Bleak.
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