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"We can't call Latinos latinx and we can't ask people to say their pronouns after their name. This is the death knell of identity politics"
"Being pro-Palestine isn't antisemitic, it's just part and parcel with the oppressor/oppressed framing of leftist thought."
"there's always some they/them or bipoc who just directs any and every topic of discussion toward their insufferable grievance politics"
"Then she invoked the well aren't you gaaaayyyyy question, and that I owe it to other gay people to care about it. And I told her, quite angrily, not to use my identity against me."
"Funny that Tarantino made a movie that checks all of the woke idpol boxes 25 years ago"
"was at a Mexican wedding and the band paused to give a shoutout to nonbinary people... my 90 year old blue collar coal miner grandfather just said defund the police and he/him lesbians are valid!"
"I politely said I disagreed, bringing up the fact that I'm biracial and the fact that I don't care about being biracial as evidence that it's not racist to not care. Apparently I have internalized racism now."
"You don't have to necessarily ignore the paranoia of Social Conservatism to criticize Liberal Idpol."
"grievance politics is just glorified gossiping; you just spend the whole day talking about the people that give you 'bad vibes' but from a moralistic standpoint just to feed the narcissism."
"Atmospherics about vibes and Idpol are 90% online fluff."
"My parents are pretty tolerant left-leaning people who are generally skeptical of idpol stuff"
"almost every new kids book they get is some sort of weird quasi-political racial or sexual identitarian thing"
"this is the result of all reddit threads having moderator teams slowly infested by a certain type of ... discord-loving cat-ear-wearing person, and the idea of all social media as idpol activism in which upvotes are donations to truly important causes"
"The pinnacle of gay liberation was never about an emancipatory politic there to ensure equal treatment before the law but to create an environment where upwardly mobile PMCs could feel more comfortable at their corporate jobs."
"We imported American social justice stuff in a country that does not share the American obsession with free speech and the first amendment"
"bolstered by a sense of vindication from the failure of the idpol project that so obsessed liberals and the 'left' for the past decade"
"liberal and progressive politics still centre around identity"
"So many sets begin with 'so I'm a woman' or 'so I'm Indian/Asian/Latino/etc.' and every so often a white guy will go up and I'll think 'well at least HE won't bring it up' and then he takes the mic and goes 'so I'm a white cis guy…' and I try not to get up and walk right out."
"I even understand the appeal of blue haired id-pol and get how a certain kind of person would be supportive of all the DEI type politics."
"I was 'cancelled' by my friend group about 5-6 years ago for mocking identity politics and defending Jordan Peterson"
"with a song about coming out as non-binary"
"Identity politics has poisoned these people to the core, there's almost no goodwill or perspective in any sense"
"It's not 2014 anymore lol idpol is truly dead"
"By the time I reached my 20's, the culture war and identity politics were in full effect, Donald Trump, smart phones, dating apps, etc."
"They get to reap the benefits of identity politics while remaining untouchable by its downsides."
"Have noticed how borderline conservative some opinions of mine have become (regarding id pol and migration in particular)"
"if you really press your average gay dude, most of them hate identity politics and some admittedly only share certain talking points out of fear of being ostracized"
"So many people are relying on politics as an identity - as a personality - and I don't just mean 'Identity politics' - that they seem totally void of any original thoughts or character."
"All cultural morality scolding is based on total hypocrisy, from some of the most insincere people on earth, who have appropriated intersectional theory to appoint themselves little unaccountable kapos."
"my politics are really similar to the identity-politics obsessed people you guys make fun"
"Feeling resentful of having gone to college during the height of IDpol and shitlibism"
"Identity politics seem incredibly reductive, and I wish people would see that and be ok with actual fluidity/individuality."
"they came up with an identitarian movement for themselves as a coping mechanism"
"if the dems double down on the 'Actually, men [ed. -- are half the population] are EVIL and OPPRESSORS, but also MUST vote for the us' line, they won't win ever again"
"My buddy showed me a post made by a guy we knew with this caption. We laughed because we didn't know what intersectional meant."
"It's pretty clear he is faking his sexuality in an attempt to gain gay valor and win identity politics."
"but if the CIA had wanted to cripple activist movements and prevent small-scale meaningful change from being enacted it's hard to think of a more effective method than forwarding intersectionality as the gold standard of progressivism."
"so many people in this sub read as narcissistic freaks with their own version of identity politics that are just as fucked up as the ones libtards subscribe to"
"That was the year when identity politics went from being a joke on Tumblr to something the mainstream media endorses"
"It was absolute *decked out* in pride flags. The garish 11 color ones that have brown and black on them. They also had banners of trans flags"
"Mr. Mangione supported equality of opportunity but doubted the efficacy of identity politics"
"Also, talk about IDPOL!!!"
"You'd think that low a score would get her (calls self he / him femboy) to dial back the wiggerdom, but she's spent the past week blasting ns at their cats and researching "culturally appropriate" West African witchcraft"
"Idpol is so fucking boring and annoying and (i say this as a minority woman) Just stop putting ppl into boxes and stereotyping them. Ironically, this isolates ppl even more espcially in places where they are a minority."
"I swear these nerds with English degrees from [New England College with 99% white students] on Twitter just make shit up now. I also don't want to get lumped in with those other groups. It's like how these dorks just decided Latinos should be called 'Latinx' now."
"I find it depressing to see people in their 40s and older trying to appear cool by using words used by Gen Zers or claiming to have heavy interests in things like idpol topics that they wouldn't have gave any shits about 10 years ago."
"Amber Frost, noted critic of idpol and MeToo cynically tries to MeToo Nathan Robinson"
"Not that I would've gone for 2017-style idpol, but it might've stood a chance if it had led to any decent art."
"I guess it was like this in my local arts scene before the pandemic too but I feel it moreso now with the constant instagram story infographics and calls for submissions being super centered around woke ideas/identity politics."
"those of you that have people confront you about pointless id pol shit how do you respond?"
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