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is a privileging of minority groups above all others and a celebration of aggrievedness above all else.

What this profound change represents is a massive shift completely into the extreme fringe of leftist politics, which we call Identity Politics. What matters is your minority group, and how aggrieved you are.

is inherently divisive and leads naturally to intense inter-group jockeying for the position of biggest victim.

Identity politics never unifies the groups it pretends to care about, it just leads to intense jockeying for positions as America's next biggest victim class. As the Democrats continue to descend into this madness, these groups will fight ever increasing battles for supremacy. Of course I called this.. I wrote a piece in 2015 called 'Minority Wars' that chronicled the way different groups within the leftist movement will fight each other over the next decade.

is interactions between the stigmatized, the normals, and the fellow travelers to the stigmatized.

Goffman introduced the term 'identity politics' to characterize the interactions between the stigmatized, the 'normals' and the 'own' (who understand the world of the stigmatized without being stigmatized themselves). In the latter part of Stigma Goffman suggested that we are all, to some degree, stigmatized. At best we are 'discreditable' if we are not already 'discredited'.

is about embracing the terms that injure one because they constitute them socially.

Called by an injurious name, I come into social being, and because I have a certain inevitable attachment ot my existence, because a certain narcissism takes hold of any term that confers existence, I am led to embrace the terms that injure me because they constitute me socially. The self-colonizing trajectory of certain forms of identity politics are symptomatic of this paradoxical embrace of the injurious term. As a further paradox, then, only by occupying being occupied by that injurious term can I resist and oppose it, recasting the power that constitutes me as the power I oppose. (Butler Psychic life of power p. 104).

is the notion that who we are becomes what we know. In other words, ontology shades into epistemology.

In identity politics, ''experience' emerges as the essential truth of the individual subjec,t the personal 'identity' metamorphoses into knowledge. Who we are becomes what we know... ontology shades into epistemology' (Fuss 1989:113 in (Martin 1996:54).

is the claim to power on the basis of a particular identity be it national, clan, religious or linguistic.

the claim to power on the basis of a particular identity be it national, clan, religious or linguistic' (Kaldor 1999: 6-7).

is the division of people into groups based on skin color, sexuality and gender.

That strange homeless guy, Shia LeBoeuf is completely right: 'He will not divide us.' But the liberal left will and if you look around, they already have, by dividing people into groups based on skin color, sexuality and gender. They have forgotten the lessons of Dr King, who would be horrified by identity politics and probably have voted Trump like Kim and Kanye.

is the idea that experience emerges as the essential truth of the individual subjec,t the personal 'identity' metamorphoses into knowledge. Who we are becomes what we know.

identity politics, n.All

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