Quotes by Identity Politics I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it. Andrej Pejic identity-politics defining fans In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on - I would ask, "Do you ride a bike?" I love everything about the machine - the sensation of the tyres on the road, the mobility - and I love the fact that you have this intimate relationship with the elements, and the landscape. Beatrix Campbell identity-politics cycling gay Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left. Charles Krauthammer identity-politics milk mother Identity politics are becoming less important since culture's being blended into one big thing - I look at kids' Tumblrs and they're all into the same things. Chaz Bundick identity-politics important kids A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy. Cleve Jones identity-politics empathy gone A lot of conservative writers have twisted that argument in the conversation around Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel and said this is identity politics as played by liberals. And that I think what they're trying to say is that progressives are the first to say. Dahlia Lithwick identity-politics judging thinking Identity politics divides us. Fiction connects. One is interested in sweeping generalizations. The other, in nuances. One draws boundaries. The other recognizes no frontiers. Identity politics is made of solid bricks. Fiction is flowing water. Elif Safak identity-politics water fiction Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer. Emma Donoghue identity-politics groups goes-on Identity politics isn't old school! It's still alive and well. Grace Dunham identity-politics alive school When you are so obsessed with identity politics it's not healthy because you're constantly worried about how you're perceived as opposed to your achievements. Once your identity becomes your achievement then you run into serious problems. Greg Gutfeld identity-politics achievement running Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals. Harry Hay identity-politics support giving I don't think that the "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness" is part of the identity, but not the most important part. Hendrik Hertzberg identity-politics important example I am not against identity politics or single based issues; at the same time, we need to find ways to connect these singular modes of politics to broader political narratives about democracy so we can recognize their strengths and limitations in building broad-based social movements. In short, we need to find new ways to connect education to the struggle for democracy that is under assault in ways that were unimaginable forty years ago. Henry Giroux identity-politics issues struggle We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party. Jonathan Chait identity-politics party white It's interesting how identity politics and Ann Coulter-style tactics have now blossomed. But they were always there in CPAC. Mark Shields identity-politics style interesting The demand for racial (and sexual) justice gets reduced to politics of identity - and excoriating the so-called perpetrators of the identity politics. Michael Eric Dyson identity-politics demand justice What the left ends up missing is that politics have always been at the heart of American culture; it's been a white identity that's been rendered invisible and neutral because it's seen as objective and universal. As a result, we don't pay attention to how whiteness is one among many racial identities, and that identity politics have been here since the get-go. Michael Eric Dyson identity-politics white heart Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics. Michelle Malkin identity-politics color mind American society is now remarkably atomized. Political organizations have collapsed. In fact, it seems like even bowling leagues are collapsing. The left has a lot to answer for here. There's been a drift toward very fragmenting tendencies among left groups, toward this sort of identity politics. Noam Chomsky identity-politics organization league Writers in the nineteenth century - people like George Eliot and Flaubert - were accustomed to addressing particular communities with which they shared not only linguistic meanings but also an experience and history. Those communities have progressively split in the twentieth century, and grown more heterogeneous, and writers emerging from minority communities have found themselves addressing audiences closer to their experience and history - a phenomenon derided by conservative white men as identity politics and multiculturalism in the arts. Pankaj Mishra identity-politics men art 12»