White Identity Politics Gave Us Trump. But Did the Left Give Us White Identity Politics?
29th November 2016
Hint: Yes.
“It is not good enough for someone to say, ‘I’m a woman! Vote for me!’ No, that’s not good enough,” said Sanders. “What we need is a woman who has the guts to stand up to Wall Street, to the insurance companies, to the drug companies.”
In response, Quentin James—former head of Ready for Hillary’s outreach efforts to people of color—had this to say, “I like U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders but his comments regarding identity politics suggest he may be a white supremacist, too.”
Sanders. A white supremacist. For daring to suggest that the most obvious sort of race-and-gender tribalism was not a winning strategy for the left.
You can’t make this stuff up.
November 29th, 2016 at 14:59
And now that The Left has been duly (and predictably–everything is ultimately The Left’s fault) blamed for creating White Identity Politics, I suppose you will now support it?
November 29th, 2016 at 19:42
Not up to me. You guys made that bed, you have to lie in it. I’ve got a nice big bag of popcorn, so I’m good.
November 29th, 2016 at 21:56
Your support is not up to you? So who is it up to, then?
O’Reilly? Limbaugh? Some other right-wing talking head who supplies you with the ideas you should be in favor of?
November 30th, 2016 at 05:25
Who said anything about support? Oh, that’s right, the little voices in your head. Well, tell them to go back to sleep.