Identity Politics

Identity politics are wearisome;

Identity politics are wearisome; you don’t want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer. Emma Donoghue

Identity politics divides us.

Identity politics divides us. Fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations. The other, in nuances. One draws boundaries. The other recognizes no frontiers. Identity politics is made of solid bricks. Fiction is flowing water. Elif Safak

I think that the

I think that the Democratic Party has been ill served by identity politics. I think that ironically evangelicals have now bought into the same mistake. They have discovered allies in the white supremacist movement. I think this is a heavy price to pay and will in the end accelerate the departure from religion by young … Read more

A lot of conservative

A lot of conservative writers have twisted that argument in the conversation around Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel and said this is identity politics as played by liberals. And that I think what they’re trying to say is that progressives are the first to say. Dahlia Lithwick

A whole lot of

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy. Cleve Jones

People who think with

People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on the grounds of ‘race’ or ‘gender’ alone, then by the exact same token I would not cast a vote in … Read more

Identity politics are becoming

Identity politics are becoming less important since culture’s being blended into one big thing – I look at kids’ Tumblrs and they’re all into the same things. Chaz Bundick

Identity politics is the

Identity politics is the mother’s milk of the Democratic Left. Charles Krauthammer

In the context of

In the context of the great debates about identity politics – are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on – I would ask, “Do you ride a bike?” I love everything about the machine – the sensation of the tyres on the road, the mobility – and I love … Read more

I’m not a big

I’m not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it. Andrej Pejic