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The Rise of Identity-Centered Politics
I don't want to repeat like, you know, kind of dumb right wing tropes about identity politics. It is true that a lot of the politics that we see today on the left and on the right concern questions, essentially relating to identity, right? Yeah. I think it's probably not the most productive way to frame discussion. On the other hand, when you make your identity into your thesis, it becomes very dangerous to disagree. Or to argue about that,. So if your main thing is all, if your main thesis is like, oh, something about American identity, real American patriot or whatever, then it seems to me that disagreement will quickly collapse into like, yeah, you're