Thread by @robfordmancs

This is an issue we discuss a lot in Brexitland with regards the British context too. One difficult feature of identity conflicts is that they are battles over values and social norms - and people find it hard to compromise with/engage those they perceive as norm violators.

https://twitter.com/RyanLizza/status/1327584367015813120

This is perfectly understandable - values and (for example) anti-racism norms are central to many people's political identities and priorities. But it poses significant electoral probs if a party needs support from voters who do not share such norms in same form in order to win

In Britain, as in the US, "political correctness gone mad" is very much the battle cry on both sides of this argument. Used by identity conservatives to articulate what alienates them. Used dismissively, by identity liberals to denigrate what they regard as an imagined complaint

"Political correctness is thinking you're better than someone else - it is *correcting* someone - people feel looked down upon".
I think that flags up one of the issues here - a status inequality dynamic keenly felt by identity conservatives yet often invisible to ID liberals

Isn't this always the case with status hierarchies? Those who are high status perceive their values and worldviews as "normal", and see condemning deviance from these as just, while those who are low status perceive themselves as looked down upon and marginalised?

Worth underlining that such status dynamics can generate important political frictions *even if there are powerful arguments in favour of the positions held by high status people*. Something can be both a just political goal and a badge of status/group identity at the same time.