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Originally Posted by rubecube
Not for those wanting to maintain a unique identity that doesn't situate queerness in heteronormativity and capitalism.
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This is one of the biggest mistakes of the identity politics movement - attaching themselves to every cause that seeks to undermine the status quo. The Fight the Power sentiment is always going to be attractive on campuses. But for the broader population out there living and working, it's a big turn-off. A black man who works at an investment bank, a gay guy who immigrated from Egypt to live in a more open society, or a woman who runs a seismic exploration company can be forgiven for thinking that activists who embrace anti-capitalist, anti-Western, anti-oil trappings don't really have their interests at heart.
People are complex. Just because they're against the status quo on one issue doesn't mean they want to tear down society and remake it from whole cloth. Most people aren't miserable and furious. Most people think our modern society works pretty well. There's a reason fewer than a third of a Canadian women identity themselves as feminists, and it's because Canadian feminists have attached themselves to a host of causes that have nothing to do with ensuring self-determination for women.