Re: NP - Fuck You and Your “Democrats Have to End Identity Politics to Win” Bullshit

[David Morris]

That sure is an idiosyncratic take. Can you point  to a single instance of
that in any medium?

David Morris

On Thursday, December 8, 2016, Chris v <traditionalgb at gmail.com> wrote:

> when some of these people say 'identity politics' they are referring to
> how critics of hillary clinton's hawkish attitude towards palestine and her
> association with goldman sachs were commonly accused of being sexist.
>
> On Thu, Dec 8, 2016 at 5:01 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','fqmorris at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> https://www.balloon-juice.com/2016/12/08/fuck-you-and-your-d
>> emocrats-have-to-end-identity-politics-to-win-bullshit/
>>
>> If I read one fucking more thinkpiece, blog post, semi-literate tweet,
>> or facebook forward
>> <http://www.npr.org/2016/11/25/503316461/columbia-professor-says-democrats-need-to-move-beyond-identity-politics> blaming
>> whatever the fuck *“identity politics”* 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:
>>
>> *Is it identity politics when you cater to white supremacists, the Klan,
>> and neo-nazis to win an election
>> <http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/14/politics/white-nationalists-on-bannon/>?*
>>
>>
>> *Is it identity politics when you say white lives matter or blue lives
>> matter
>> <https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/white-lives-matter>?Is
>> it identity politics when you cheer building a wall to keep out rapey
>> Mexicans
>> <http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3775181/Supporters-chant-Build-wall-Donald-Trump-arrives-greet-fans-Ohio-fair.html>?[...]***No.
>> Of course not. What you mean when you say “identity 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.*
>>
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