- 20 Oct 2017 16:52
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All politics is identity politics.
The working class, the bourgeois, Sexuality, race, gender, etc. Are all groups of people who share similar interests for various economic and historical reason.
When the left rails against identity politics what they are really saying is that working class identity politics is the only identity we should actually care about.
Then you get things like FDR creating wonderful new programs with unprecedented support for the working class, but oops they were designed to fuck over black people.
The myth that by entirely focusing on working class politics somehow magically LGBT people and racial minorities and women will magically get equal rights is a ridiculous and pernicious form of nonsense.
Policies and politics to support LGBT people, racial minorities, and women matter. Not to you obviously, why would they? You don't benefit from them.
Posting some ridiculous article from salon doesn't change the fact that you are trying to tell me what is in my real interests like I'm too stupid to know my own experience and needs.
And oh look, your article was written by a white leftist talking about how minorities are blind to their own needs and are, as an entire group, failing to support their own real true actual leftist interests.
The working class, the bourgeois, Sexuality, race, gender, etc. Are all groups of people who share similar interests for various economic and historical reason.
When the left rails against identity politics what they are really saying is that working class identity politics is the only identity we should actually care about.
Then you get things like FDR creating wonderful new programs with unprecedented support for the working class, but oops they were designed to fuck over black people.
The myth that by entirely focusing on working class politics somehow magically LGBT people and racial minorities and women will magically get equal rights is a ridiculous and pernicious form of nonsense.
Policies and politics to support LGBT people, racial minorities, and women matter. Not to you obviously, why would they? You don't benefit from them.
Posting some ridiculous article from salon doesn't change the fact that you are trying to tell me what is in my real interests like I'm too stupid to know my own experience and needs.
And oh look, your article was written by a white leftist talking about how minorities are blind to their own needs and are, as an entire group, failing to support their own real true actual leftist interests.
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