His bits about 'the left' are poorly articulated, and mostly of wrong. But he's correct to ruminate that we live in an age whereupon everything can be consider

His bits about 'the left' are poorly articulated, and mostly of wrong. But he's correct to ruminate that we live in an age whereupon everything can be considered an issue of 'identity' to the extent that it's some kind of intrinsic, principal orientation of personae. Coupled with the fact that challenges to 'identity' can be considered 'hate crimes' (I'm not being hyperbole, this is the legal situation in many places) - and you have a problem. We used to have 'Hippies', 'Punks', 'Goths', and even 'national' and 'religious' identities - but most of those were forms of expression, perhaps 'important' but never really intrinsic. We've taken it to a new level entirely and it's a rapidly expanding social problem.