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Once again Brooks gets identity politics totally wrong!
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Here is my correction. (Follow thread.) Another clueless diatribe about "identity politics" by someone who has no idea what it means. As one of the 3 co-authors of "The Combahee River Collective Statement" (1977) where the term originally appeared,
I can confirm that identity politics means nothing remotely like what Brooks and others like Mark Lilla say. There have been systems of institutionalized oppression in the U. S. like white supremacy, capitalism, misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia which predate the term
