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> First of all: identity politics are extremely right-leaning (for lack of a better term). Focusing on identity means focusing on the individual. There's nothin
by robertlagrant 2y ago
> First of all: identity politics are extremely right-leaning (for lack of a better term). Focusing on identity means focusing on the individual. There's nothing left-leaning on that.
Identity politics, at least as I've seen them over and over again, look at identifying an individual's struggles / privileges / speech rules / etc through their membership of groups, not their individual struggles or advantages.
- kaoD 2y agoYes, groups so fragmented they consist of exactly one individual in your state. You might be gay, but are you gay-hispanic like me? Then we're not in the same overlap of the intersectionality Venn diagram. Sorry. Have you considered why the pride flag (a rainbow, metaphor for inclusion of all "colors", has no need for extensions) now has so many additional flags superimposed on it? Wikipedia's "List of gender identities" has dropdowns for letters of the alphabet (and growing). None of this is accidental.
- BryantD 2y agoAh, so if a political party spent several election cycles emphasizing how the opposition was ignoring the problems of "rural Americans," or "parents," for example.
- robertlagrant 2y agoIf you're treating an individual as a member of a group, you're doing it. If you're treating a group as a group, you're not.