Ezra Klein and Matthew Iglesias say that critics of identity politics are confused. They think it's just a matter of which identities are being targeted or stoked in any given moment, they argue. The key distinction here is the difference between an immutable identity and immutable identity. You're not born a scientist you can cease to be a scientist tomorrow. And there's nothing wrong with saying hey we are retired and we want to make sure that retired people get to have a decent life.
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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