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2016 Postmortem

DanTex

(20,709 posts)

4. The "salient" point is pure stupidity.

Reply to portlander23 (Original post)

Sat Dec 3, 2016, 07:16 PM

Dec 2016

Nobody has ever said that "identity politics" and "economic justice" are incompatible. In fact, for the most part, people who use the term "identity politics" use it derisively. All of a sudden, wanting to make sure women, minorities, LGBT, aren't discriminated against is deemed "identity politics". And more often than not, the people using it in that way are straight white males like Zach Carter. He can't even bring himself to say "anti-discrimination" or "social justice".

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Why Hillary Clinton Lost [View all] portlander23 Dec 2016 OP

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