[Red Slinger]

I think there's a place for identity politics but the issue with the current landscape is that they are overused. The civil rights, suffragette and gay rights movements all relied on identity politics. These movements were all predicated on the notion that basic rights were being withheld due to the identity of these groups. Many of the identity politics we see today are further down the spectrum of withheld rights and instead are inching closer towards arguing about luxuries with the same importance as previous identity politics argued about rights. While doing so these luxury rights activists are minimizing the more important issues by treating them with the same zeal. I suppose it's the next natural step though: once everyone has their basic human rights you move on to fight for the next rung of "rights". Not that we're there quite yet.