
Norman Finkelstein On How The Left Cancels Itself
Pushback with Aaron Mate
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The Identity Politics Movement and the Bernie Sanders Campaign
The Bernie Sanders campaign was the combination of those tendencies, which I said began probably around the early 1980s. But at the other side, a second left or calling itself a left emerged. And that was the identity politics movement. So we had those who claimed that the Bernie campaign was all about white men. They said it was all about Bernie bros. Gloria Steinem tried to discredit the Bernie campaign by saying, Oh, yeah, it's true. Then along comes Tana he see codes. Bernie has a serious problem with black people. Kimberly Crenshaw came along and she says, well, the real action is happening in corporate America,. Not with those old Jewish marks like Bernie
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