So whomever you define as "the identitarian Left" must all think identically. That's the very definition of prejudice--they're all alike.
Usually the charge of "identity politics" is either the right wing castigation of "woke" or the dogmatic leftist's insistence that class is the only issue and anything else is dismissed as "divisive," s…
So whomever you define as "the identitarian Left" must all think identically. That's the very definition of prejudice--they're all alike.
Usually the charge of "identity politics" is either the right wing castigation of "woke" or the dogmatic leftist's insistence that class is the only issue and anything else is dismissed as "divisive," such as BIPOC and LGBTQ. Most often armchair theorist white guys who've never had to fight to be recognized as who they are. Whose culture is not trying to survive despite an at best ignorant majority and at worst one openly hostile. And to top it off, have never held a tool in their lives.
I was a blue collar union rank and file activist for 28 years and a local Dem campaign mgr. I also fall within both sets of letters; it's not either/or--as if one "identity" precludes another. Like my grandfather the Wobbly, (I.W.W.) I know we workers can manage our own economic and political movements. We don't need some self-appointed vanguard dictating what we should do.
As for Dems, my knowledge of them is from long and bitter experience. I fought the usurpation of the party by the neolibs who then dumped the New Deal and abandoned the majority working class. Sure, the Ds have no problem with your race, or religion, or gender, or sexual orientation. As long as you are Ivy League elite or the equivalent. We of the letters can see that just because someone has the same set doesn't mean we have the same interests. We realize the Ds only represent the10-20% administrative and professional class. People who don't worry about mass layoffs, healthcare, or local schools. Who don't question the neocon wars of empire. People who are fine with the destructive trickle up econ system and whose political campaigns are funded by the corporations they serve.
So whomever you define as "the identitarian Left" must all think identically. That's the very definition of prejudice--they're all alike.
Usually the charge of "identity politics" is either the right wing castigation of "woke" or the dogmatic leftist's insistence that class is the only issue and anything else is dismissed as "divisive," such as BIPOC and LGBTQ. Most often armchair theorist white guys who've never had to fight to be recognized as who they are. Whose culture is not trying to survive despite an at best ignorant majority and at worst one openly hostile. And to top it off, have never held a tool in their lives.
I was a blue collar union rank and file activist for 28 years and a local Dem campaign mgr. I also fall within both sets of letters; it's not either/or--as if one "identity" precludes another. Like my grandfather the Wobbly, (I.W.W.) I know we workers can manage our own economic and political movements. We don't need some self-appointed vanguard dictating what we should do.
As for Dems, my knowledge of them is from long and bitter experience. I fought the usurpation of the party by the neolibs who then dumped the New Deal and abandoned the majority working class. Sure, the Ds have no problem with your race, or religion, or gender, or sexual orientation. As long as you are Ivy League elite or the equivalent. We of the letters can see that just because someone has the same set doesn't mean we have the same interests. We realize the Ds only represent the10-20% administrative and professional class. People who don't worry about mass layoffs, healthcare, or local schools. Who don't question the neocon wars of empire. People who are fine with the destructive trickle up econ system and whose political campaigns are funded by the corporations they serve.