How Identity Became A Weapon Against The Left

This is a September 2017 editorial article, yet:

It’s strange that we’re at the point where this needs to be said: a black politician is not necessarily the best politician to promote black interests, and a female politician will not necessarily serve women’s interests better than a man would. Race produces a set of lived experiences that inform our political perspective, but identity cannot be used as a mitigating factor for political shortcomings.

And

But writing off Clinton’s leftist critics as necessarily motivated by gender bias was sexist in itself.

Are a couple things that still are pervasive as then among the Democrat party and some of the left, after eight whole years.

Like racism, misogyny, transphobia and other xenophobia come out like a river of sludge from the conservative right wing, and Democrats pick and choose little bits of this bigotry to float in their messaging to write off their critics, as if they were going fishing in this sludge.

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This is a September 2017 editorial article, yet:
It’s strange that we’re at the point where this needs to be said: a black politician is not necessarily the best politician to promote black interests, and a female politician will not necessarily serve women’s interests better than a man would. Race produces a set of lived experiences that inform our political perspective, but identity cannot be used as a mitigating factor for political shortcomings.
And
But writing off Clinton’s leftist critics as necessarily motivated by gender bias was sexist in itself.
Are a couple things that still are pervasive as then among the Democrat party and some of the left, after eight whole years.
Like racism, misogyny, transphobia and other xenophobia come out like a river of sludge from the conservative right wing, and Democrats pick and choose little bits of this bigotry to float in their messaging to write off their critics, as if they were going fishing in this sludge.
Primary tool of the Reagan Democrats/Clintonism. Gotta weaponize identity, and hopefully no one notices your policies are identical with the Republicans.
Wow, this is nearly Family Guy levels of prescient (article is from 2017). I'm once again impressed with the work done by Current Affairs.