Agree to Disagree: Identity Politics

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🗓️ 5 February 2021

⏱️ 64 minutes

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The public and pundits alike are still processing the recent election, but this much we know: 2020 marks the most diverse Congress in American history, and President Trump garnered record numbers of minority voters. The takeaway is split. Were identity politics a way to prevail? Two experts on race and identity in America sit with Intelligence Squared host and moderator John Donvan to debate. Arguing “YES” is Michael Eric Dyson, an author, New York Times contributing opinion writer, contributing editor of The New Republic, and professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. Arguing "NO" is John McWhorter, an author, host of Lexicon Valley, contributing writer at The Atlantic, and professor of Linguistics at Columbia University. Taped on November 23, 2020, originally released on December 11, 2020. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.0	It is the degree to which black people have been systemically denied,
0:37.0	opportunities that other people can take for granted.
0:40.0	And as long as we deny, the lethal limits that are imposed upon black American folk
0:46.0	or black folk more broadly, as a result of the very identities we speak about,
0:51.0	then those identities have to be taken into account.
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0:58.0	is sticking your thumb down against white hegemony.
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