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Originally Posted by rubecube
Okay but that's an argument against the effectiveness of the identity politics, not the morality of the identity politics.
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It's both, if you're a consequentialist at least. If your moral theory is something like, "we ought to act in such a way that will produce the most human happiness", or "we ought to act in such a way that will best serve the advancement of the species", and identity politics isn't effective (or is counterproductive, as I'd argue) at producing the result you're after, then it's immoral by those lights.
If you want to talk about what the right moral theory is, that's a whole other thread, but the vast majority of people are consequentialists of some sort (whether they've consciously thought about it or not).