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Identity = Oppression, Identity Politics = Defense

Posted by Pharmakon on 2024-June-13 14:30:45, Thursday
In reply to Why railing against the norm is futile. posted by JohnHolt on 2024-June-13 07:23:19, Thursday
What your analysis seems to me to leave out is that identities are imposed to justify differential treatment of the identified. Identity politics arises to fight this oppression.

Yes, the end game of identity politics is, or should be, the end of the identity. But preaching the end of identity politics to a marginalized group amounts to (or can amount to) recommending surrender. The path to an end of identity is identifying and eliminating the differential treatment to which such groups are subjected. And this involves assertion of identity -- both because that is necessary for the effective political organization of the marginalized group, and because recognition of the differential treatment that is the root of identity creation is impossible without recognition of the identity itself.

hugzu ;-p


Pharmakon
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