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Have identity politics been hijacked by the elites.

I'm Sean Elling, and I'm your host for Vox Conversations.

That phrase, identity politics, has become one of those blunt affifetz people use to dismiss forms of politics they don't like.

You hear a lot of talk about identity politics. The division of American identity politics, flat out racism, and bigotry, but to the mob, the media, the small ones gets a bad rap.

Do you not agree that the real threat from identity politics in the United States to West Texas ask what's so bad about identity politics?

You wouldn't care about identity politics if it was your identity.

And the general complaint, if we're being charitable, is that identity politics is toxic because it's narrow and exclusionary, whether it's being practiced by black Americans or trans people or white supremacists.

So the idea is that as someone's doing identity politics, they're not mobilizing around some particular group interest, like class, for example.

They're mobilizing around some fixed aspect of, well, their identity.

And that's just bad politics in a diverse society that requires broad coalitions that cut across group differences.

People on the other side of this will often say that this is really just an attack on race and gender politics, or that everyone has identities, and politics is simply about mobilizing around those identities.

In other words, identity politics is just politics.

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