>>Identity politics aims to change culture and behavior in ways that have real material benefits for many people. >>By turning a spotlight on narrower experien

>>Identity politics aims to change culture and behavior in ways that have real material benefits for many people. >>By turning a spotlight on narrower experiences of injustice, identity politics has brought about welcome changes in cultural norms and has produced concrete public policies that have helped many people. The Black Lives Matter movement has made police departments across the United States much more conscious of the way they treat minorities, even though police abuse still persists. This is another false, politically correct account. The impact of the Black Lives Matter movement, on black lives, has been devastating. What this racial justice movement led to is riots, wherein 18 people were murdered in one night in Chicago: https://forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/06/08/18-people-were-murdered-in-chicago-on-may-31-making-it-the-citys-single-deadliest-day-in-60-years/ https://forbes.com/sites/tommybeer/2020/06/08/18-people-were... And massively less aggressive policing, which led to 1,003 homicides in Chicago in 2021, twice that of 2019. https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Report-paints-grim-picture-of-Chicago-area-gun-16746049.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Report-paints-grim-... The reason is that police are arresting fewer people, and solving fewer homicides: https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/1/3/22858995/chicago-violence-dangerous-murders-per-capita-2021-2020-surge-garfield-park-police-lori-lightfoot https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2022/1/3/22858995/chicago... “Many of our officers are not arresting people, are letting crimes that happen right in front of them go by because they don’t want to be misconstrued as being racist or being held liable for any kind of misconceived notions of brutality or whatever,” he said." Consequently, revenge killings, where one gang retaliates against another for a previous, unsolved, homicide, have skyrocketed.