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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
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.
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Well I'd disagree with that. Nearly every single major civil rights accomplishment for women, minorities, etc., has been accomplished by them organizing as groups and demanding justice as a collective. I doubt women get the vote without the suffragettes, for instance.