RE: Identity Politics
February 12, 2019 at 10:55 am
(This post was last modified: February 12, 2019 at 11:08 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Libertarians were more an intermediary in the exchange than anything, but they were intermediaries for things like race realism, climate denial, and male grievance - generally by means of "skepticism". It doesn't seem like identity politics is causing the left to self destruct. It's fueling pop vote wins and blue waves as the left constructs a new american identity to appeal to, which, in the rights estimation, leaves middle american white males, the traditional american..behind.
Socialism....? Cohesiveness? In a coalition built around the inclusion of more identities into the american identity...don't you think that pushback against that might be more perilous? It has the dual effect of allowing the right to set the narrative of the left while simultaneously proclaiming that the left is hypocritical for having abandoned those identities they paid lip service to in order to build that coalition. If you're worried about some sort of centrist new dem drift, isn't spreading the talking points of the right and criticizing what you see as the "far left" going to accomplish exactly that?
I think that you hate "identity politics" because you've been told to, and further have been misinformed as to what identity politics is..as well as who it is that's telling you these things.
(I'm only playing along, ofc, you're a poe....
)
Socialism....? Cohesiveness? In a coalition built around the inclusion of more identities into the american identity...don't you think that pushback against that might be more perilous? It has the dual effect of allowing the right to set the narrative of the left while simultaneously proclaiming that the left is hypocritical for having abandoned those identities they paid lip service to in order to build that coalition. If you're worried about some sort of centrist new dem drift, isn't spreading the talking points of the right and criticizing what you see as the "far left" going to accomplish exactly that?
I think that you hate "identity politics" because you've been told to, and further have been misinformed as to what identity politics is..as well as who it is that's telling you these things.
(I'm only playing along, ofc, you're a poe....
)
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