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powerhour | 3 years ago

You say trend like it is a recent phenomenon and not something that has been happening for centuries if not millennia.

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kranke155|3 years ago

That’s true. Identity politics is just a new name for it, but we did use to burn people at the stake for the same reason.

adamrezich|3 years ago

it would be dishonest to ignore the fact that "contemporary identity politics" kicked fully into gear as a direct response to #Occupy—and its objective was & continues to be successful

powerhour|3 years ago

Contemporary identity politics are at least in part a response to the contemporary "occupy" movements, sure, and that's pretty much by definition.