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2016 Postmortem

La Lioness Priyanka

(53,866 posts) Wed Dec 14, 2016, 12:25 PM Dec 2016

There seems to be a lot of handwringing about the term Identity Politics and what it means [View all]

it does not mean voting for a woman because you are a woman.

it mean voting for a person who will most further your feminist agenda, if you are a feminist.

voting for a person who will further your queer agenda, if you prioritize gay rights.

it is voting for the person who most aligns with the identity that is salient to you politically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics

This is why no one on this board who identifies as a feminist voted for Sarah Palin, but plenty voted for Obama and HRC.

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There seems to be a lot of handwringing about the term Identity Politics and what it means [View all] La Lioness Priyanka Dec 2016 OP

Are you pulling my leg? NCTraveler Dec 2016 #1

lol. wish i were pulling your leg. La Lioness Priyanka Dec 2016 #2

well terms mean whatever they do by the person using them.Words mean different things in JCanete Dec 2016 #3

in sanders case he used it incorrectly. he was talking about tokenism and called it identity La Lioness Priyanka Dec 2016 #4

TIL "Identity Politics" and "Being PC" mean something else when Bernie says it. SaschaHM Dec 2016 #8

I was just excoriated for be "party of politics" WhiteTara Dec 2016 #11

We may be living "post-truth," but we're not "post-dictionary" yet. BobbyDrake Dec 2016 #5

+1 La Lioness Priyanka Dec 2016 #6

Language is far more living and evolving than that. It wasn't handed down on tablets from heaven. JCanete Dec 2016 #7

language evolves, but this was just straight up incorrect usage of a RW term that derides civil La Lioness Priyanka Dec 2016 #10

Who's wringing their hands? White dudes? nt LexVegas Dec 2016 #9

Shhh! WhiteTara Dec 2016 #12