
Judith Butler on US and world politics, art, feminism, gender-theory, non-violence, and many other things
Crisis and Critique
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The Failure of Identity Politics
I think there this is a complex matter because what people call identity politics differs across the political spectrum and why they tend to call something identity politics rather than something else is also kind of interesting. With black lives matter or with Nihuna Menos perhaps the very idea of freedom is being redefined, he says. I just feel that we need to be uh we need to hear him say it's not for me or not from mine but if we're committed to radical democracy we know that over time we are asked to rethink the basic concepts by virtual challenges especially those who've been excluded from the history of freedom or the history of equality.
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