What is wrong with Identity politics?
It shifts the debate from economics and pits workers one against another.
When you consider yourself first and foremost a Women/Jew/gay/White/Black whatever, this leave few room for class consciousness.
So what is wrong with Identity Politics?
Anthony Hall
Owen Turner
BACK TO POL YOU RACIST SCUM!
Ryder Gutierrez
Identity politics forgets that the "identity" that actually dictates your ability to engage in society is your class, your relation to production - not your genitals or skin colour. See: Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton.
However, leftypol likes to forget that genitals and skin colour do still affect people's lives on an individual basis, and these identities do impact people's ability to engage in society. See: ghettos.
Joseph Bell
Samefag, you know there's an article in Bunkermag looking at the alienation within a Tupac rap song right? You do realize, samefag, that we do fight for people of all genital and colors, right? Thomas Sankara and all that?
We fight for equality here at leftypol. What we don't buy into is oppression olympics, or the idea of "patriarchy". We will fight for the gays, we will fight for purple, yellow and magenta peoples. But we all suffer equally under capitalism, and capitalism is the engine of oppression.
Pic related. Fuck off and stop samefagging now that you have your replies.
Jason Mitchell
We all suffer under capitalism, but we do not all suffer equally. Im not interested in an "oppression olympics" either, but to say that every person suffers equally is plainly false. And no one group universally suffers more than the other, but general trends exist and are worth consideration. An able bodied, European, male proletarian likely (not certainly) has a better quality of life than a one-legged Pakistani female proletarian, for example.
Jayden White
Identity politics are the tool that ruling classes have used throughout the ages to divide their vastly more numerous exploited subjects and remove the power that they have when organized collectively.
Gabriel Gray
Nothing.
Nathaniel Robinson
The entire basis of ghettos is that it is profitable for them to exist. De facto segregation means real estate developers do not have to sell their property at lower prices to compete.
Blake Turner
A class is an identity.
William Myers
Ghettos aren't profitable because they lower the standard of living.