http://www.democraticunderground.com/12512623906 DanTex (16,311 posts)
"Identity politics" is a term used by conservatives to attack social justice.
You don't hear practitioners of so-called "identity politics" using the term.
Take, for example, gay marriage. No advocate for LGBT rights talks about gay marriage as an "identity politics" issue. Only opponents of gay marriage do that. And they do it because they want to deny rights to LGBT people, and the term "identity politics" helps their anti-LGBT cause.
The point of what right-wingers dismissively call "identity politics" is to ensure that all people have equal rights. Yes, sometimes this requires focusing on specific groups. This is not to split the populace into warring factions. It is because the so-called "identity groups" that right-wingers talk about are groups of people who are being systematically denied equal rights in the status quo.
It's not enough just to say "everyone should have rights" when we have a system that systematically denies rights to certain groups. It is necessary to identify those groups and the kinds of discrimination they face, and to specifically fight against each form of discrimination.
"Identity politics" will only go away when all people have equal rights. And we're pretty far from that right now. And until we get there, I am going to stand with any group of people who are being discriminated against.
Where to start. Look DUmmie, "Identity Politics" is all the dems are about. Your side REFUSES to look at people as individuals and only look at the collective. Thus you have the dem nation divided into sub-groups. Blacks, Latinos, Gay, Lesbian, Trans, plus many others I've left out, each a little collective unto themselves.
Now, as a conservative, I dismiss the "collective" and look at people as individuals. It matters not to me what someones skin color is, whether they're gay, lesbian or straight. I simply don't care. What I do care about is how the individual acts and treats others. If they're an a*shole, they deserve no respect, at all, period. If a black person is an a*shole to me and I don't like or respect them, it doesn't mean I hate all black people, just that one, individual person.
I simply don't care if someone is gay. If they like puffin the pole, no business of mine, but if that person is an a*shole to me, they deserve no respect. It doesn't mean I hate all gays, just that one individual.
In other words, as long as the Dems continue Identity politics, each sub-group with their own agenda within the "collective" of the dem party, will be pissed off when something good happens to another sub-group and doesn't benefit them. Vice versa ad nauseum.
A house divided and all that. Your house is divided. You fell in '10, '14, '16 and will again in '18 and '20.
So no, don't change a thing, then complain about the results, ratcheting up the rhetoric resulting in more losses. It's a vicious circle. One that I am relishing. So, keep it up, PLEASE!!!
