Confronting the “Elite Capture” of Identity Politics in Our Movement Spaces
Movement Memos
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What's the Story of Identity Politics?
I don't think that a group of people that is neither prepared nor willing to fight for their own children is going to successfully fight for yours. That's just not a version of politics that I find plausible. A lot of the people who have this anti-coalitional perspective on identity politics sell it as a kind of hard-nosed, serious, unsentimental realism. So the smart move is to be single-mindedly focused on our interests and only engage with other people insofar as it serves our particular interests.
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