In No Politics but Class Politics, Walter Benn Michaels and Adolph Reed show how an identity politics that obscures class politics and ignores economic inequality only makes the many miseries around us worse.
“identity politics” is just a white weasel word like “regime” or “expat”
when a mayo does the same thing a person from a 3rd world country does it’s called “expat”
when a “bad country” has a government it’s called a regime
when POC do even a fraction of what whites have been doing for the last 200+ years it’s called “identity politics”.
because you know rioting against desegregation and bussing and etc totally isn’t identity politics
white people are obsessed with finding new words and phrases for the same old thing, because that obfuscates the centrality and longevity of the political struggle, and lets you frame it as “hey look at these wacky new identity politics that only started in 2010”
I put in another comment that I found that the phrase itself dates back to the 70s from antiracist feminist groups using it to describe their politics and the struggles they face in the USA.
Like the word “woke”, the fascists have co-opted it’s use to be derogatory and to mean anything that that they disagree with (usually that is either anti-racist or feminist in nature).
“identity politics” is just a white weasel word like “regime” or “expat”
when a mayo does the same thing a person from a 3rd world country does it’s called “expat”
when a “bad country” has a government it’s called a regime
when POC do even a fraction of what whites have been doing for the last 200+ years it’s called “identity politics”.
because you know rioting against desegregation and bussing and etc totally isn’t identity politics
white people are obsessed with finding new words and phrases for the same old thing, because that obfuscates the centrality and longevity of the political struggle, and lets you frame it as “hey look at these wacky new identity politics that only started in 2010”
I put in another comment that I found that the phrase itself dates back to the 70s from antiracist feminist groups using it to describe their politics and the struggles they face in the USA.
Like the word “woke”, the fascists have co-opted it’s use to be derogatory and to mean anything that that they disagree with (usually that is either anti-racist or feminist in nature).