RE: Identity Politics
February 12, 2019 at 8:55 am
(This post was last modified: February 12, 2019 at 9:10 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Much like white grievance, there's a market for male grievance fan fic. People who repeat these talking points commonly think that they've committed the sin of failing to properly virtue signal - that this explains other's reactions to it. Then they blame "identity politics" for others understandable leariness towards them as unwitting rightwing nutjobs.
Not for nothing, it's just as true and true in the same way as before....but not in the way that they think it is. They have properly virtue signaled, for the opposing identity party. So we could say that identity politics is dividing the left, if we wanted to stretch it. The success of the right here is framing and messaging. They've framed a broad swath of racist, homophobic, and misogynist rhetoric as "skepticism" of some type or another - as they did with climate science. It works. They propogate that message through friendly or "allied" sources to launder it. Often enough, the left does the lift for them.
In this case, though, it's a bit more transparent. AEI is a consistent rightwing identity politics front.
Not for nothing, it's just as true and true in the same way as before....but not in the way that they think it is. They have properly virtue signaled, for the opposing identity party. So we could say that identity politics is dividing the left, if we wanted to stretch it. The success of the right here is framing and messaging. They've framed a broad swath of racist, homophobic, and misogynist rhetoric as "skepticism" of some type or another - as they did with climate science. It works. They propogate that message through friendly or "allied" sources to launder it. Often enough, the left does the lift for them.
In this case, though, it's a bit more transparent. AEI is a consistent rightwing identity politics front.
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