Article:
HOW IDENTITY BECAME A WEAPON AGAINST THE LEFT
I am pretty anti-SJW, so I disagree with a lot of the policies the author of this article supports, though not all... However, I agree with her sentiments on the topic of identity politics. She mainly focuses on the harm it causes progressives, but as far as I am concerned it harms everyone, especially us in the center who don't care for the fringe right or the fringe left, since the very act of not supporting ultra progressive positions is usually met with accusations of bigotry.
What is your opinion on identity politics and do you agree or disagree with the author?
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Gonna put the TL;DR up top since this article was long as fudge:
Basically the author, Briahna Joy Gray, a 'progressive leftist' herself, is criticizing the left's focus on identity politics. She argues making everything about identity politics has come full circle and is harming the progressive cause. She uses the examples of Kamala Harris and Corey Booker, and how many progressives dismiss all criticism of them (including, but especially criticism from the left itself) as racist and sexist, despite the policies they support (as far as she is concerned) being harmful to progressive causes (their corporate/banking connections/funding, their centrist platforms, etc.). She examines how this played out in the Clinton versus Sanders fight and how many progressives offhandedly dismissed all criticism of Hillary as sexism/misogyny, despite Clinton having very questionable positions/corporate support with regard to the goals of the progressive cause, while those same progressives who blindly defended Hillary because she was a woman offhandedly dismissed Bernie Sanders as a white male who couldn't possibly speak for blacks/women, despite his extremely progressive platform and history of supporting progressive causes. An example of this being how the left itself created the pejorative "Bernie Bro" to describe white males supporting Sanders as sexists and only doing so because Bernie was a man. (When both I and the author say progressives, mind you, we aren't speaking of all progressives in general, just the ones doing what is described in the example.)