It's time for self-reflection, Holla Forums

This better be bait.

Literally the whole point of intersectionality is that identity politics are limited but can be reconceptualized

Esoteric Jahanism is the only solution to this.

I live in the inner city. One of the highest immigrant populations in the United States.

No, what you mean to say is being against people who rely on IdPol to frame entire arguments. I am not against BLM, feminism, ect. I am against assholes who say "Only straight white men care about income inequality".

Sorry that I don't think all the worlds problems can be solved by becoming part of the Tumblr feminist movement.

I'm not necessarily talking about their income or age, I'm talking about how they just wanted the benefits of the revolution without having to sacrifice a thing. Also how they treated oppressed people.

Literally the whole point of intersectionality is that identity politics are limited but can be reconceptualized

Well, I'm trans-woman, married, transitioned in my late teens… my husband and I are what you would consider "proles" like most people and he is trans as well.

My distaste for idpol isn't that I don't think there is prejudice and discrimination in society relating to race, gender, sexuality, religion, etc. It's more that I think it trips over itself constantly and is afraid of real confrontation. Then you have the idpol of religious groups like Muslims which trend reactionary.

I'm all for confronting real oppression, but lack of class consciousness has led idpol to being totally hijacked by bouge liberals. Clinton's entire campaign was idpol, and guess what, SO WAS TRUMPS.

To me, real idpol happens at the community level of people engaging one another in genuine ways. You know, a diverse community coming together to grow some food. The internet and the way idpol has been used in modern American political discourse is nothing but distraction and divide+conquer garbo.

I think anyone who attended college in the last 10 years understands this. It has been totally reduced down to hippie liberal trash. "Oppression Olympics." I even saw this happen on campus. People had to take one step forward or one step back depending on whether or not they had been given various "privileges" or not.

How about "Who here is a fucking slave to their boss?"

leftypol's understanding of what identity politics is can be summed up as such:

So, in other words, nobody here has read anything about feminism, language, or identity politics. Which is no surprise where we currently are.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics

Try reading the news some time. Shit arguments like this all the time

As a Hispanic with roots of Mexican-African slaves, I've never seen idpol to be particularly useful in the slightest. To me it always derailed actual action, having to worry about offending or if a group was being "included" in the revolution. Worrying about and believing the concept of race is important is just another dividing line that adds onto the list of things that keep the proletariat separated and vulnerable to porky's oppression.