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The Sunday Debate: Identity Politics is Tearing Society Apart

Intelligence Squared

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Identitarianism and Race

Identity politics is inherently adversarial. It thrives on enemies. Though ostensibly concerned with victim hood, its proponents gleefully seek victims of their own identitarian have created a cutthroat, predatory environment. Implicitly, the ideology pits disadvantaged groups against one another in a competition over who 's been treated more badly. Rather than calling us to a shared community, it fosters a climate of anxiety, division, antagonism, touchiness and paranoia. So in our universities, faculties are terrified to teach or publish anything that might conceivably step on a minority's toes. Persecution common. In work places, employees negotiate a mine field of micro aggressions and are afraid to make

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