When racism is done in the name of protecting certain communities, efforts to counter it end up forcing individuals to put their marginalized identities on display and they face more vulnerability, not less.
In Winnipeg, an electric menorah was taken down "preventatively" before Hannukah, because our mayor thought that Palestinian protestors might deface it. In response, some of us held a public menorah lighting and said a prayer for Palestine, and decided to post a selfie to say "this is who has been in your streets and in your ears-- Palestinians and Jews, side by side." Our faces were the message. This screenshotted, edited and reposted version had me rethinking visibility as a strategy in activism.
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Indifference to style ... is almost always symptomatic of the dogmatic sclerosis of content.
Theodor Adorno, "Reconciliation under Duress," in Aesthetics and Politics, 1977
“The Identity Artist and The Identity Critic" by Hannah Black (Artforum, Summer 2016) is an excellent read for female artists and artists of color exploring intersectionality within their works and discursive practices as well as Administrators of white cultural and political institutions.
A Sense of Doubt blog post #2793 - Hidden Meaning of Political Bumper Stickers. https://sensedoubt.blogspot.com/2022/10/a-sense-of-doubt-blog-post-2793-hidden.html #wethepeople #why #stickers #slogans #division #identitypolitics #stateofthehatenation https://www.instagram.com/p/CjlY62IvouLdmb-NTcFC2IVo23mvnkoKBPZNu80/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Writer, philosopher, and political theorist, Hannah Arendt breaks down why she loves her friends and feels nothing comparable for any collective political group she may also belong to.
Lower-income Republicans get hit with every racist, homophobic, transphobic, and misogynistic narrative the fascist GOP can generate, and FOX can broadcast.
The GOP wants a culture war to hide their proven record of destroying the economy and ballooning the deficit.
The GOP wants to cut Social Security and Medicare, and they want their voters hating Bud Light and worrying about boogeymen.
Reading some socialist news, most of which I’m on board with, and noticed by he classic throwaway comment that identity politics and proponents of it are to blame for the left’s failures. That the right wouldn’t have the momentum they do if it weren’t for the silly women in gays.
I know the argument is more nuanced than that, and that capitalism and consumerism has created a funhouse mirror version of identity politics that reinforces the worst structures and perpetuates individualism instead of community (plus the in fighting). But a recent citations needed episode really called out left media’s reliance on this myth, which plays right into the right’s hands. I should really finish listening to it as maybe it will help me articulate what I’ve had a icky feeling about in the past. It just seems like the critique is not critique but instead a dismissal of very real violence experience by not white men. And to say that those who advocate for identity stuff are causing our loss in this cultural war is pure none sense, and intentionally or not, seems to have the purpose of upholding the myth that the white cis man is rational and everyone else is frivolous.
Trans Community Tensions Rise: Nashville Shooter's Gender Identity in the Spotlight as Gun Control Debate Shifts Focus to Identity Politics
Trans Community Tensions Rise: Nashville Shooter's Gender Identity in the Spotlight as Gun Control Debate Shifts Focus to Identity Politics #NashvilleShooting #IdentityPolitics
By Dave Van Zandt
The recent Nashville school shooting has ignited a fierce debate surrounding gun violence in America, with some on the right attempting to shift the conversation from gun control to the shooter’s suggested trans identity. This development has heightened concerns within the trans community, as many fear that focusing on the shooter’s gender identity will exacerbate existing…