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Va Lefty

(6,252 posts) Wed Jun 27, 2018, 01:48 PM Jun 2018

Soledad O'Brien on identity politics

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Soledad O'Brien on identity politics (Original Post) Va Lefty Jun 2018 OP

She nails it. Tatiana Jun 2018 #1

republicans politics is *entirely* identity politics. unblock Jun 2018 #2

WHENEVER we hear the phrase "identity politics" we should remind the speaker that Squinch Jun 2018 #3

Tatiana

(14,167 posts)

1. She nails it.

Reply to Va Lefty (Original post)

Wed Jun 27, 2018, 01:50 PM

Jun 2018

"working class" "middle class families"

Sometimes a journalist will be brave and actually say "white working class," but that doesn't happen often.

That's identity politics too. And Soledad is correct to point it out.

unblock

(52,309 posts)

2. republicans politics is *entirely* identity politics.

Reply to Va Lefty (Original post)

Wed Jun 27, 2018, 01:55 PM

Jun 2018

they really don't have any issue that isn't, ultimately, about identity politics.

the catch phrases they use, the insults they hurl, the outrages, all of it.

it's *all* identity politics.

Squinch

(50,993 posts)

3. WHENEVER we hear the phrase "identity politics" we should remind the speaker that