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We all have various identities, ethnic, class, religious,

identities based on our passions or values, upbringing, and much else besides. religious identities

and much else besides.

These identities frame our lives.

They provide them with meaning.

But according to Yashamunk,

what should be a healthy relationship with particular identities

has become an obsession, a sickness.

Yashamunk, welcome to Philosophy Bites.

Thank you so much.

The topic we're going to talk about is the identity trap. What is the

identity trap? Well I think over the last decades we've had the rise of a new set of

ideas about race and gender and sexual orientation

that have really transformed how the left thinks about those issues and had increasing influence in mainstream institutions as well.

This trap has a lure, which is to say that it is a set of ideas which claims that they are the

most radical,

the most consistent in fighting against injustices

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