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/334/ Cancellation is Cancelled ft. Norman Finkelstein

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The Role of Identity Politics in the Democratic Party

The second aspect of identity politics is it's basically used as a juggernaut and very consciously, I think very wiggly. It's being weaponized by the Democratic Party in order to stop a Bernie style insurgency from below within the party. And the third aspect, which to me is not trivial, is it's a way for people to pretend as if they're radical without making any sacrifices. In my day, there was an expression called committing class suicide and committing class suicide, men, if you were a person of a privileged background,. You had to give up a lot.

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