Election 2024: Are Identity Politics Holding Us Back?

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🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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During election seasons, Democrats and Republicans leverage identity-based platforms to engage voters. Those who think identity politics isn’t holding us back argue identity politics offers a pathway for inclusion and empowerment for historically-sidelined groups. Those who believe it does hold us back argue it prevents constructive dialogue on solutions that benefit everyone, and risks alienating large segments of the population. Now we debate: In the 2024 Presidential Election, Are Identity Politics Holding Us Back? Arguing Yes: Coleman Hughes, Host of the “Conversations with Coleman” podcast and Contributing Writer at The Free Press Arguing No: Alicia Garza, Founder of Black Lives Matter and Black Futures Lab Emmy award-winning journalist John Donvan moderates Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is open to debate.
0:07.0	This is open to debate.
0:08.0	Hi everybody, I'm John Don Ben and in this debate we're going to examine the impact
0:11.9	of identity politics both in relation to the upcoming
0:15.0	election and also in general.
0:17.6	What are we talking about?
0:18.6	Well, go back a century plus four years when women gain the right to vote in the United States. That
0:24.6	arguably was a victory for identity politics. We had a group that was
0:29.3	politically disadvantaged because of who they were, namely because they were women, they organized together and around a common
0:35.8	goal of rectifying that inequity, they won, and they gained some power in the process.
0:41.6	That is the basic idea, and it's the same dynamic we see nowadays in many
0:45.3	more forms, starting with the sense that the system is being unfair to certain groups because
0:50.2	of who they are. Those groups then respond by organizing politically
0:54.0	around that very identity to push for change. They can be allied around
0:59.3	a racial ethnic minority, around gender, around disability, and so forth. As you no doubt no,
1:04.8	identity politics not only has its enthusiastic practitioners, but also its
1:09.0	critics and in this debate we are bringing thinkers from both sides of that divide to the table to hear what each will argue in response to this question.
1:17.5	In the 2024 presidential election, our identity politics holding us back.
1:24.0	So let's meet our debaters.
1:25.0	Answering yes to that question.
1:26.5	I want to welcome Coleman Hughes.
1:28.1	Coleman is host of the Conversations with Coleman Podcast, a contributing editor at the
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