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1. It's pernicious.
Thu Feb 23, 2017, 11:05 PM
Feb 2017

There are a lot of white male pundits who keep the ideas that all flavors other than white straight cis male are "identity politics." People keep parroting it like they've discovered a new toy.

I think people lunge for this because they think it absolves them from worrying too hard about racism. If racism is an oppression from the ruling classes, then the class warrior only has to worry himself with his own concerns, because obviously anything that helps him will just apply to the rest of the working class automatically and will fix everything.

Then he can get comfortable telling everyone that working on oppression is a time-wasting distraction, and not "the real issue." Yeah...

(Sorry, I'm in a ranty mood.)

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