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Identity Crisis: Everything's Made Up and the Points Don't Matter

Fucking Cancelled

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Identitarianism as a Generator of Social Movements

identity politics more generally are obviously able to mobilize like a huge amount of emotional energy people identities are important to people. We also have to be aware that there is a push and an impulse from people in power to try to co-opt movements, says Van Jones. "It costs the captains of capital literally absolutely nothing yeah to play representative politics with identitarians," he adds.

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