So, is idpol good or bad? The left is pretty divided on this issue so I thought I'd ask you lot.
So, is idpol good or bad? The left is pretty divided on this issue so I thought I'd ask you lot
Blake Mitchell
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Jayden Collins
Bad. Divides workers against each other and focuses on petty bullshit instead of the root of racism and sexism.
Evan Davis
Identity is retarded. It separates people based on arbitrary shit instead of actual interests in real matters.
Asher Rivera
Do other places not complain about us anymore?
Aaron Brown
No, it's not. Those who promote idpol aren't left-wing by definition.
Gabriel Jones
Imagine my shock
Nathan Scott
IdPol is basically a buzzword at this point, you need to be more specific to get any kind of decent response. Zig Forums has a ridiculously inconsistent definition of IdPol once you get past the "idpol bad" line, no one agrees on what it means and it's used more often than not just to signal general annoyance with western left-liberal speech policing and insufferableness which is fine and good but then depending on who you ask that can mean anything from "i shouldnt be gate-kept from socialism because im white wtf" (obviously true and an example of a disgusting excess of liberal infected western leftism) to "black people are culturally reactionary and their music should be banned, gay people are mentally ill and too weak to fight in the revolution" (literally just reactionary IdPol but somehow more acceptable than liberal IdPol around here)
Mason Wright
Identity gives you personhood and is actually pretty important for people, largely. We should by all means use people's identity to help them come together to recognize what we have in common while also allaying the ever present worry about "the other group". The bigger the identity group that we can get people to identify with, the better.
However, the politics of oppression that surround it are a serious mistake that confuses the vector of oppression with the source of the oppression. This is "identity politics" which is literally designed to make people stop thinking about how oppression actually works and instead just focus how make person feel bad.
Owen Jones
Even liberals are starting to realize idpol is a bad idea: twitter.com
Read Exiting the Vampire Castle by Mark Fisher: opendemocracy.net
Kayden Lopez
Imagine MY shock