It’s hilarious to read your question because, in the US at least, the right is so much more dogmatic about identity politics than the left.
It’s been about 9 years since the Western left took its idpol turn
Define your terms.
- What happened 9 years ago?
- What exactly is “idpol”?
- What exactly is the “Western left”?
If I had to guess, I’d say that you watched a few YouTube videos selected for you by the YouTube algorithm, and then assumed everyone else in the Lemmyverse is in the exact same headspace as you.
My Marxist-Leninist conceptualization of what “Western left” and “idpol” mean might be very different from yours.
- Western Marxism: How it was Born, How it Died, How it can be Reborn
- Imperialist Propaganda and the Ideology of the Western Left Intelligentsia: From Anticommunism and Identity Politics to Democratic Illusions and Fascism
- https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Western_Marxism
- https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Left-wing_anticommunism
- https://en.prolewiki.org/wiki/Identity_politics
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combahee_River_Collective
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Previously: https://lemmy.ml/post/15667745/11073512I had to look up “idpol” … which is a simplification of the division.
The left wants to include all the diversity of underrepresented minorities. The right wants to ignore or erase instead.
The process has both helped and hurt. I have known countless people who feel like they could come out and be themselves, in the hope that society had finally reached a level of acceptance. And now, the right has shown how much judgement and hate still thrives.
I hate everything to do with identity politics. All it has done is divide us even more and caused more conflict between ordinary people.
