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Any view of identity politics that includes racial minorities but doesn't include white Christians (or especially white Protestant Christians who have different
by rat87 6y ago
Any view of identity politics that includes racial minorities but doesn't include white Christians (or especially white Protestant Christians who have different but overlapping identity with white Catholics (who also frequently have ethnic identity that also comes up in identity politics Italian Americans, polish Americans, Irish Americans, etc)) seems oddly and uselessly specific.
- whatshisface 6y agoYeah, that's right. I am only claiming that "liking a group because they have a history of supporting your personally held goals" is not identity politics. That's barely even politics, although it might be politics. Identity politics is liking a group because you feel a primordial tribal identification with the group. Oftentimes this has nothing to do with whatever the group has done for you.
- newacct583 6y ago> Identity politics is liking a group because you feel a primordial tribal identification with the group And again I tell you that this definition is fake. It's not the way these groups think about this at all. And more over it's fake in a deliberate way, designed to fool YOU, as a member of your particular libertarian subculture, into discounting the political desires of other demographics by leveraging YOUR trust in your own group due to "primordial tribal identification". Seriously: I know you think that your desires are "real" and these other groups are just "identity politics". You're wrong. All desires are real.