Michael Graaf
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UNLOCKED- Calling Out "The Compatible #Left" (w/ #GabrielRockhill)
UNLOCKED- Calling Out "The Compatible #Left" (w/ #GabrielRockhill)
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Whatever the reality of the situation is, it's complicated, and the solutions will come from slow, careful, respectful community building and outreach. Not by slinging accusations around, and spewing toxicity into the spaces where people are trying to get fiddly technical work done. That kind of thing - however well intentioned - is just as likely to drive away people of [insert identity category here] as anything else.
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"...there are risks to viewing the world through the prism of identity ... If 'identity' becomes synonymous with 'perspective', dissenting members within the identity group risk having their viewpoints erased and their humanity diminished. And when used cynically, as a political weapon, a simplistic view of identity can allow people of a particular political faction to wrongly imply that they speak for all members of their racial or gender group."
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2017/08/how-identity-became-a-weapon-against-the-left
"Already, influential Democrats have shown a strong interest in [Kamala] Harris, with prominent former Clinton donors meeting privately with Harris in the Hamptons. The San Francisco Chronicle called her the Democrats’ 'Great Blue Hope', and a Guardian writer suggested that the combination of Harris’s race and her centrist platform 'could be the party’s solution to its identity crisis'.”
#BriahnaJoyGray, 2017
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/2017/08/how-identity-became-a-weapon-against-the-left
In hindsight, it's easy to see where the Dems went wrong.