<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.balloon-juice.com/2016/12/08/fuck-you-and-your-democrats-have-to-end-identity-politics-to-win-bullshit/">https://www.balloon-juice.com/2016/12/08/fuck-you-and-your-democrats-have-to-end-identity-politics-to-win-bullshit/</a><br><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.85em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.5;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(68,68,68);background-color:rgb(244,244,244)">If I read one fucking more <a href="http://www.npr.org/2016/11/25/503316461/columbia-professor-says-democrats-need-to-move-beyond-identity-politics" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;max-width:100%;text-overflow:ellipsis;word-wrap:break-word">thinkpiece, blog post, semi-literate tweet, or facebook forward</a> blaming whatever the fuck <em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">“identity politics”</em> is for Democrats losing the election I am going to lose completely and totally lose my shit and climb a fucking bell tower. I don’t even know what people mean when they say identity politics anymore. So let me ask you:</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.85em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:1.5;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(68,68,68);background-color:rgb(244,244,244)"><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Is it identity politics when you cater to <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/14/politics/white-nationalists-on-bannon/" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;max-width:100%;text-overflow:ellipsis;word-wrap:break-word">white supremacists, the Klan, and neo-nazis to win an election</a>?</em></p><em style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:14px;line-height:inherit;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(68,68,68);background-color:rgb(244,244,244)"><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.85em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Is it identity politics when you say <a href="https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/white-lives-matter" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;max-width:100%;text-overflow:ellipsis;word-wrap:break-word">white lives matter or blue lives matter</a>?</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.85em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Is it identity politics when you cheer <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3775181/Supporters-chant-Build-wall-Donald-Trump-arrives-greet-fans-Ohio-fair.html" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;outline:0px;max-width:100%;text-overflow:ellipsis;word-wrap:break-word">building a wall to keep out rapey Mexicans</a>?</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.85em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">[...]</p><div align="center" style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline">***</div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.85em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline">No. Of course not. What you mean when you say â€œidentity politics” is you mean all those groups you want to systematically oppress try to stand up and defend themselves and it hurts your feelings because you can’t have your way. In politics, it’s called COALITION BUILDING.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0.85em 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:1.5;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline"><br></p></em></div></div>