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Excuse my ignorance, but does the term "idpol" have a more specific meaning than as an abbreviation of "identity politics"? If the article describes it, it's af
by happytoexplain 8y ago
Excuse my ignorance, but does the term "idpol" have a more specific meaning than as an abbreviation of "identity politics"? If the article describes it, it's after the paywall, and a quick Google doesn't quite clear it up. The reason I ask is that it sounds like you're using it to describe a liberal movement I haven't heard of, but I could change the identifying nouns in your post and it would describe the sum of my anecdotal experience instead - the salient difference being not that I feel the opposite way that you do, but that I have always assumed that this experience of mine is not representative of broader reality, and that the problem is (at least similarly) pervasive on all sides of political divides.
- dbrueck 8y agoI'm not aware of any alternative meaning; the article mentioned in the earlier post gave a good explanation of it IMO. My personal experience is with the Left and certain people being extremely in-your-face about it and (ironically) pre-judging me by my gender, sexual orientation, and skin color. But yeah, I think identity politics exists everywhere on some level, it gets corrupted and bad the further you go towards the extremes of the spectrum, but for better or for worse on the Left there seems to be more of an overt part of the narrative currently (which leads to e.g. https://goo.gl/V47VH8 https://goo.gl/V47VH8).