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The Perils of Identity Politics
American Conservative ^
| November 9, 2016
| Rod Dreher
Posted on 11/09/2016 4:26:30 PM PST by C19fan
Somebody as consistently wrong about Trump as I was doesnt really have the right to say I told you so, but Im going to do it anyway, with respect to something Ive been saying for a long time to liberals. Let us examine a characteristic liberal reaction this morning, this one courtesy of Miss L.V. Anderson, a white, female editor at Slate. Excerpt:
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: identity; race
The Left thought it can use Identity Politics and avoid the inevitable backlash by haranguing whites about being "privilege". It thought it can talk about American turning Brown and how wonderful it was, for example, Kaine pandering to Hispanics stating they are the future of the country without provoking a backlash. Guess what the silent white majority had enough and fought back. The Left opened that genie bottle and now they will pay the consequences.
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posted on
11/09/2016 4:26:30 PM PST
by
C19fan
To: C19fan
Identity politics is dead. We’ve got all three branches, now let’s make the most of it!
To: Gunpowder green
Weve got all three branches, now lets make the most of it Mitch McConnell will tell us that he would like to help us, but without a filibuster proof majority of 60 Republican Senators, he is just going to be unable to do anything, like repeal Obamacare.
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posted on
11/09/2016 4:30:20 PM PST
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: Gunpowder green
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posted on
11/09/2016 4:32:02 PM PST
by
DiogenesLamp
("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
To: C19fan
This is a bigger part of the picture than a lot of people recognize, IMHO. The left has been promoting this kind of politics, which is basically about competing identify groups advocating for their respective interests, but whites aren’t supposed to be a part of it. But after a while, people wake up.
To: C19fan
Now, there is one more aspect to white working-class despair: dispossession.Exactly how I feel! The last of the Mohicans.
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posted on
11/09/2016 4:42:59 PM PST
by
MUDDOG
To: DiogenesLamp
We need the nuclear option...yesterday! A majority is a majority.
To: Behind the Blue Wall
> The left has been promoting this kind of politics
“Identity” politics is another word for “tribal” politics, which is how 99% of the f’ed-up world operates, inevitably producing tyrannical regimes.
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posted on
11/09/2016 5:18:56 PM PST
by
XEHRpa
To: C19fan
I should write up a piece to really explain what happened with women.
To: C19fan
The American left had better wake up and realize what its obsession with identity politics is doing to it, and to the country. Many of you think the white Trump voters were motivated by nothing more than racism, because thats how you have come to see the world. This ideological obliviousness has blinded you, as much as a related ideological obliviousness blinded the GOP establishment to the changes in its own base that prepared the way for Trump. You have no grounds on which to oppose Trumps brand of identity politics if you insist on practicing identity politics of your own.That was good.
To: DiogenesLamp
Change Senate rules. Eliminate the filibuster. It’s time to roll back FedGov, and the long term consequences of no filibuster do not matter given the more immediate (4-8 years from now) danger posed by anti-American leftists.
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posted on
11/09/2016 11:19:52 PM PST
by
Pollster1
("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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