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Category Archives: Identity Politics
House Democrat Blues
From a Politico piece on “House Democrats lament blue-collar collapse”: Democratic Rep. Collin Peterson of Minnesota, who eked out 53 percent of the vote in his unexpectedly close race this November, blamed his party’s stances on the deficit, gay rights, … Continue reading
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After November: George Packer
Writing in The New Yorker, which by definition means a liberal perspective, George Packer has a long piece with some interesting passages (“Hillary Clinton and the Populist Revolt: The Democrats lost the white working class. The Republicans exploited them. Can … Continue reading
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Ethnicity Matters
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” — Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor
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Hannah Arendt & Identity Politics
From a brief article on Hannah Arendt in the LA Review of Books: The most famous case of Arendt misunderstanding — possibly willfully — the political effects of identity was on display in the controversy overEichmann in Jerusalem. In this … Continue reading
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CNN/Univision Democratic Debate
Tonight’s CNN/Univision Democratic Debate was a mega dose of Hispanic Ethnic Identity Politics… in other words, a sign o’ the times. The first introductory minute of the debate, spoken entirely in Spanish and with no English subtitles, left most Americans … Continue reading
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NYT: “How Should Asian-Americans Feel About the Peter Liang Protests?”
NYT Op-Eds don’t materialize out of thin air. Contributors are allowed publication only when the relevant NYT editors give a column the green light, and with the NYT this is usually done to further a narrative. This past Saturday, thousands … Continue reading
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W. Europe: Merry Christmas!
England’s Express newspaper has a piece on the “Shocking march of the far-right across Europe.” Among the highlights: AUSTRIA: The far-right Freedom Party (FPO)… have also consistently performed well in national opinion polls this year, with most carried out since … Continue reading
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LAT: A Border Fence is ‘Logistically Impossible’
In the LAT, reporter (opinion columnist?) Kurtis Lee, who is black, has a piece called “Donald Trump often says things that stretch the truth, but they fire up the faithful“. Among his gems: For example, when Trump talks about ending … Continue reading
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The Pope & The Planet
Various scientific skeptics that global warming is predominately the product of human activity have been dis-invited from a Vatican conference on the matter. From the Washington Post: The incident highlights how climate-change doubters tried and failed to alter the landmark … Continue reading
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Suffragette City 2.0
It doesn’t take much imagination to forecast how the Hillary campaign will deploy a series of predictable tactics (e.g., stitched together appeals to the Obama Coalition block, which is essentially identity-politics for everyone except heterosexual white men; the ‘first woman … Continue reading
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