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The Michael Steele Podcast

"If You're Gonna Do Identity Politics, Do It Right" (Quick Take)

The Michael Steele Podcast

The Bulwark

Politics, Government, History, News

4.83.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Michael Steele speaks with Tim Miller and Roland Martin about identity politics, how it informed the 2024 election and how to engage in identity politics "the right way."

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0:00.0

So the problem that is mainstream media, and I'm going to go ahead and say it, ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, Fox News, of course, CNN, they don't want to have the real conversation that whiteness is also identity politics.

0:17.0

They only see identity politics as you black people, you Latino people, you gay folks, and you women.

0:22.7

Gay people, exactly.

0:23.7

So we don't want to contend with the cultural battle is actually a battle of righteousness.

0:32.9

Well, that explains in large part the reaction to Vivek's Ramoswamy and Elon Musk talking

0:42.3

Boom!

0:43.3

Right?

0:44.3

Right?

0:45.3

They're talking about, oh, yes, those HB1 visas.

0:49.3

Yeah, we got a whole, you know, a whole different plan.

0:53.3

We need to bring the black and brown people because you white people, you white men are

0:58.7

dumb as shit.

0:59.5

And guess what?

1:00.6

And I said, Elon Musk, Vaira Ramoswamy, none of these folks, none of these folks.

1:08.0

And this is very true.

1:09.0

All these billionaires that are coddling up the Trump, Trump himself, they're not, you know,

1:15.3

Elon is not hiring these folks to work at SpaceX.

1:20.8

He's not hiring these ones.

1:21.8

You don't think so?

1:23.0

The guys from the Maga rally?

1:24.8

You don't think any of them are going to work for Palantier?

1:26.9

Hell no.

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