Monday, June 22, 2020

The Left is Having an Identity Crisis (from December 2019)

Just found this over at Areo online magazine. The authors are "leftists" who are battling the demise of their own "side" and calling out Identity politics and elitism.

Here's the link:

The Left is Having an Identity Crisis

Key passage:

Let’s start with what isn’t going to work. It simply will not do to blame these electoral results on the idea that the majority of the population is ignorant, hateful, or unaware of their own best interests. This is the attitude—made popular throughout the educated left by a growing commitment to elitism and critical theories—that got us into this mess in the first place. This attitude is particularly worrying because it leads leftist activists to double down on exactly those things that are killing the left.

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