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Re:Orthodox Privilege by whatshisface on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @03:26PM (#23850379)
Yeah, that's right. I am only claiming that "liking a group because they have a history of supporting your personally held goals" is not identity politics. That's barely even politics, although it might be politics. Identity politics is liking a group because you feel a primordial tribal identification with the group. Oftentimes this has nothing to do with whatever the group has done for you.
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Re:Orthodox Privilege by newacct583 on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:59PM (#23852628)
> Identity politics is liking a group because you feel a primordial tribal identification with the group

And again I tell you that this definition is fake. It's not the way these groups think about this at all. And more over it's fake in a deliberate way, designed to fool YOU, as a member of your particular libertarian subculture, into discounting the political desires of other demographics by leveraging YOUR trust in your own group due to "primordial tribal identification".

Seriously: I know you think that your desires are "real" and these other groups are just "identity politics". You're wrong. All desires are real.

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