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RedEmmaSpeaks wrote

Generally the Brosocialist aspect, smug cisgender White boys patronizingly lecturing women or minority groups, about how they simply must ignore their issues, because Class is more important. I agree that Class is important, but it is very reductionist thinking to assume that it is the only issue that matters and that it affects all people equally.

Even LBJ said that Black Poverty wasn't the same as White Poverty and it remains the truth. Intersectionality and Identity Politics matter and aren't distractions that can be shunted to the side and ignored, until we've solved poverty forever. Bigotry and oppression isn't a to-do list, where we list our objectives in terms of priority and go down the list. I simply cannot believe that after carefully checking off "Solve Poverty," everyone will look at each other and be like, "Whelp, that's taken care of. Let's work on Racism." Like Audre Lorde said: “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different from my own.”

It's also a handy way of dodging the fact that as White Men, they actually benefit from Identity Politics. Society is centered around them and their needs, whereas Women and PoC have constantly had to fight for what's rightfully due to them. White Men have the luxury of being able to ignore the reality of Identity Politics, but Women and PoC are drafted into the fight almost as soon as they are born. We can't ignore Identity Politics; we're up to our necks in it.

The Left is centered around the idea that all people should be free to express themselves and live their lives as they see fit, so long as it harms no one else in the process. Identity Politics isn't a distraction from the cause; it is the cause itself.

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