There's no equivalence between a politician appealing to a group of college students promising to forgive student loan debt and a black person offering reparations for slavery. The defense of identity politics that posits that in fact all politics are identity politics just skirts the difference between those two things, he says.
In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Coleman Hughes, a young black writer quickly making a big name for himself, about how to fight discrimination against minorities without making group membership more salient than it already is.
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