Conservatives talk a lot about how we don't like identity politics.
Democratic politicians who engage in identity politics often mean something like "Ethnic politics," by which members of a community organize in their collective interest.
Conservatives sometimes use "Identity politics" to describe simple ethnic politics, but only when it's ethnic politics they don't like.
One doesn't have to support everything done in the name of identity politics to understand that it's not the grave threat to democracy and "e pluribus unum" that some make it out to be.
My core problem with identity politics has little to do with this sort of thing.
My problem is with categorical politics, or reductionist politics.
Identity politics always ends up being an appeal to a kind of group loyalty.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/identity-politics-danger-group-loyalty/
Democratic politicians who engage in identity politics often mean something like "Ethnic politics," by which members of a community organize in their collective interest.
Conservatives sometimes use "Identity politics" to describe simple ethnic politics, but only when it's ethnic politics they don't like.
One doesn't have to support everything done in the name of identity politics to understand that it's not the grave threat to democracy and "e pluribus unum" that some make it out to be.
My core problem with identity politics has little to do with this sort of thing.
My problem is with categorical politics, or reductionist politics.
Identity politics always ends up being an appeal to a kind of group loyalty.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/07/identity-politics-danger-group-loyalty/
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