identity politics

“Identity politics” can be wielded in counterproductive ways.

But there is no denying that it was also shot through with empty lip service—that on many levels, elite institutions and powerful organizations were performing symbolic identity politics to bolster their reputations without enacting meaningful material reforms.

So now you have to make it about identity politics because that’s the only other thing they would win in a heartbeat if they made it about class.

As a condition of remaining a university-sponsored and funded organization, the group had to agree to never talk about bias, discrimination and identity politics on campus.

In recent years, Democrats have talked themselves into a kind of cul-de-sac by agreeing to enforce false pieties about everything from identity politics to Israel to inflation.