When Mary Katharine Ham and I speak publicly about our book, End of Discussion, we often spend a fair amount of time lingering on the subject of the Left's weaponization of identity politics.
Others, offended that Obama was being given the Republican treatment on that front, wondered whether lobbing false claims of sexism at the first black president might have some problematic racial undertones.
Joe Biden has now been victimized by this same toxic environment, in which his 1970's stance on mandatory school busing has been turned into a cudgel to portray him as racially insensitive...by a woman of color who turns out to basically, um, share his policy position on the issue.
The point of the attack wasn't the policy; it was the identity politics.
"The persistent singling out. . . it got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful. . . the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color."https://t.
If a political skirmish breaks out, identity will be gratuitously raised and used as a weapon.
Those points were reportedly disseminated in a mass internal email among Democrats.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/07/11/the-revolution-turns-inward-democrats-now-savaging-each-other-with-mindless-identitiy-politics-attacks-n2549912
Others, offended that Obama was being given the Republican treatment on that front, wondered whether lobbing false claims of sexism at the first black president might have some problematic racial undertones.
Joe Biden has now been victimized by this same toxic environment, in which his 1970's stance on mandatory school busing has been turned into a cudgel to portray him as racially insensitive...by a woman of color who turns out to basically, um, share his policy position on the issue.
The point of the attack wasn't the policy; it was the identity politics.
"The persistent singling out. . . it got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful. . . the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color."https://t.
If a political skirmish breaks out, identity will be gratuitously raised and used as a weapon.
Those points were reportedly disseminated in a mass internal email among Democrats.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/07/11/the-revolution-turns-inward-democrats-now-savaging-each-other-with-mindless-identitiy-politics-attacks-n2549912
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