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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I'm not sure I'm a huge fan of being told identity politics are the cause of division.
Correct me if I'm wrong, anybody, but I'm pretty sure discrimination did that.
It's going to blow people's minds when identity politics disappear and there is zero impact on the issues they're blaming it for. Don't worry though, we can focus more on class warfare!
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How do you propose to separate discrimination from identity politics? By and large they are one and the same. Identity politics requires discriminating against groups that don't share that identity (for better or worse) to mean anything at all. Identity politics legitimizes discrimination.
Can you provide even one example of where identity politics where the identity is race, religion, or gender has ever reduced polarization and moved groups closer together?
Sure, there are other identities that can move very polarized groups of people together, like national identity during times of war, but I've never seen policy based on the above criteria do so, except in reaction to it.