Identity Politics Debate
The cluster centers on debates about identity politics, including criticisms of enforcing or politicizing personal identities, distinctions between personal self-perception and group-based political identities, and arguments against categorizing people into identity groups.
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This sounds like trying to enforce an identity label that not everyone agrees with.
As if one's views are enough to presuppose one's identity.
It's almost like identity is important to people or something.
I'll probably get flagged - I see it more like being a goth or a skater or whatever. Identity is something people like to have generally, it's normal, but somehow it gets politicised in certain cases. I don't think a relationship to sex has to enter into it, it's more like a justification maybe?
You're flirting with an identity fallacy here, but please, explain which part of my views are extreme.
You can tell from identity politics in the brackets who is people and who isn't people. Why not just say what you mean?
People tend to consider outsider identity politics a bad thing, not their own.
Wait - aren't you exactly describing identity politics?
"Identity" in most psychological context generally refers to how a person perceives themselves. It's personal; there is no threshold. You can identify as The Greatest JavaScript Master of All Time and no one can do anything but disagree.The way I read it, that's precisely the danger this essay is warning about.When you start identifying as a "JavaScript Developer" you are making JavaScript development a part of who you are. Anything about JavaScript becomes pe
Politics and identity politics is kind of like having an accent. If all the people around you have the same accent and you're not very introspective, you might come to think that you don't have an accent.