Identity Politics:
What are they? Who
hates them?
And why is the right the best at them?
And why is that really scary?
Hey Newsbroke, before we begin a minor tigger warning:
We're going to be
talking today about race, gender and
(deep voice) Hillary Clinton.
So why are we talking
about identity politics now?
Well, it's cuz they were everyone's favorite
scapegoat after the 2016 election.
It came from the right, obsessed with what
they see as an obsession.
"Democrats' obsession with identity
politics"
"This obsession with identity politics"
"I love stories so here's one:
it's
about a candidate and a party who relied
on identity politics so much it forgot
their own country.
It's about a candidate
who got so obsessed over being a woman
she forgot she was human."
Cool story bro.
Now tell the one about the president who
was so human he implied he wanted to
bone his own daughter!
But surprisingly
it also came from liberals:
"We cannot be
a caucus of identity politics."
"Ease up on the identity politics"
"Senator Bernie Sanders, he thinks the Democratic
Party right now should move away from
what he calls identity politics."
Et tu, Bernie?
Wait wait wait, back up.
What ARE identity politics anyway?
and why is
every white guy on YouTube angry about them?
To find out I'll, now toss to T1J,
a black man on YouTube, to explain.
Hello, Newsbroke.
So what are identity politics?
well basically it's any political belief
that stems from your identity.
For example your nationality or class or
race or gender, your sexuality, your
geography, your language, basically
anything you belong to other than like
Earth or the Internet.
And we all have
identities, so identity politics should
be a neutral term
but these days it's
mostly used to refer to politics that
take on issues that affect people of
color, women and the LGBTQ population .
So
you know issues like police brutality,
immigration reform and reproductive
rights.
Because apparently only
minorities care about those issues.
So
basically that's identity politics or at
least that's how people talk about it
these days.
If you want to know more
about how I feel about identity politics,
I actually did a whole video about it
on my own channel.
Thanks T1J. But like, you're black.
So you're biased.
Well you're half
chinese and half italian yeah.
Yeah, so half-white.
Half as biased.
anyway we'll check
back with you later it's true at times
it did feel like Clinton over relied on
identity politics
Secretary Clinton how would you not be a
third term at President Obama well I
think that's pretty obvious I think
being the first woman president would be
quite a change from the presidents we've
had up until this point including
President Obama is there a policy
difference Anderson let me just come off
that amazing applause and tell you it's
all on my website at WS n woman WS n
woman WS n woman dot as in period as Ann
I used to get him dot Hillary rod woman
Clinton dot yes we've all heard it
people on the right and the left saying
that Clinton talked too much about
gender and not enough about jobs in the
economy but according to a study of her
campaign speeches by a reporter at Vox
Clinton spent very little time saying
words like Latino women's rights and gay
in fact more than anything else she
talked about jobs in the economy
but I get it though she says jobs in
America here's vagina vagina vagina
Broyles might worry about the tactical
error with discussing identity politics
the right gets defensive at the mere
mention of issues that affect minorities
like the reaction to black lives matter
protests the reaction to the women's
March and Ann Coulter all of the time
people love to be self-righteous and
that's what a lot of this political
correctness of the identity politics is
being used as and it gives you know sort
of boring people without any meaning in
their lives and who aren't particularly
bright it gives them a way to say no
that's a microaggression and then oh why
'because i must be an important person
you've just described your job if you
couldn't rail against identity politics
no one would know who you are and don't
bite the hand that feeds you cuz it's
probably black well why worry about
issues that affect minorities when your
party largely captures white voters
conservatives probably don't have to
worry about being stopped and frisked
questioned about their legal
satis and don't have to explain their
sexuality to aunt Jan on Thanksgiving
getting the far-right to pay attention
to the issues of anyone from another
perspective other than their own is like
trying to get President Trump to pay
attention to a security briefing this
map of North Korea is boring okay it
doesn't even show all the states I won
but the right swears up and down that
identity politics is just a liberal game
and I would argue that the left
basically perfected identity politics
it's very effective but it's very
divisive and we on the right should not
come anywhere close to it ah but you're
closer than you think right just listen
to how GI Jesus vice president Pence
begins nearly every single speech I'm a
Christian a conservative and a
Republican in that order I'm a Christian
a conservative and a Republican in that
order I'm a Christian a conservative and
a Republican in that order in other
words I'm white white and super white
can you imagine if a politician said I'm
a woman a Muslim and a liberal in that
order Ann Coulter would immediately get
a lifetime of book deals so it's
ridiculous for the right or even the
left for that matter to get so bent out
of shape about identity politics because
while yes it can be a political tool to
rally certain bases of voters it's not
just a game played by women and
minorities Trump is a master of it do
you think when he calls Mexicans rapists
and criminals
that's not identity politics do you
think when he goes after Muslims and
says we're going to put them in a
registry that's not identity politics I
don't know what the hell you call it but
in my book that's identity politics yes
latina queen and yet we keep hearing
Hillary lost because she couldn't
connect to the white working-class while
Trump did but a study showed that where
Clinton lost non-college educated voters
it wasn't because of those voters class
but rather their defensive perceptions
about race and gender perceptions that
Trump exploited when Trump insults Carly
Fiorina megyn kelly and Hillary Clinton
he's laying his very mangled manhood on
the table when Trump says that the
Mexican heritage of an Indiana judge
makes him untrustworthy he means that
only white judges can be unbiased when
Trump says he fights for the working
class and the silent majority he wants
you
here I'm putting white people first the
left says black lives matter the right
says blue lives matter the left says
undocumented immigrants the right says
illegal alien the left says Happy
Holidays the right says why isn't Jesus
on my Starbucks cup Trump is alluding to
white identity but we never call it
identity politics because whiteness is
seen as the norm and while white people
are in the majority pandering to their
whiteness hasn't just given us Trump
it's also given us Richard Spencer a guy
who very much believes in identity
politics as a tool and Spencer's
critique of Trump not overtly playing
the white card is very telling if Donald
Trump would ultimately become about
identity and he would ultimately
understand America as as a as
historically as a white country he could
understand that I think he could
dispense with all the talk of crime and
rape and murder and just say this is
ours you're not you are not us this
country is for us no it's not okay fine
take Florida
what Spencer's arguing for is to drop
code words and when you do that make
America great again isn't a far cry from
make America white again and white
identity politics aren't new which is
why they're more dangerous they come on
top of legacies of white supremacy
murdering natives enslaving Africans for
nearly 250 years creating a system of
legalized oppression through Jim Crow
preventing a woman's right to vote for
144 years after the country was founded
you know all the great stuff right t1j
yeah I mean if you think about it not
using identity politics is a privilege
in and of itself it's kind of its own
identity really it's just the status quo
of whiteness straight white men have the
privilege of not having their opinions
tinged by being brown or having a vagina
when I hear people say stuff like hey
black people stop bringing up race all
the time stop making everything about
race is just kind of proof that you're
not listening because we are talking
about race but we're also talking about
class and gender it's all intertwined
hashtag intersectionality what we're
saying is listen to us because
historically as a society you haven't
been doing that identity politics isn't
the problem the racist and sexist
society that causes people to use
identity politics is
Thank You t1j so maybe we should call
identity politics intersectionality and
while we're at it let's call the alright
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