So, we can disentangle Marx from the gulag and Nietzsche from the final solution, but we can’t separate ‘identity politics’ from a tendency to reify identity categories?

so-treu:

james-bliss:

And therein lies the rub with what’s Left in the academy. A willed failure of the imagination when it comes to Black feminist theorizing. I want to throw my shoe at everyone who dismisses ‘identity politics’ (without defining it, much less understanding it), but I don’t have enough shoes.

A. MEN.

I concur.

So, we can disentangle Marx from the gulag and Nietzsche from the final solution, but we can’t separate ‘identity politics’ from a tendency to reify identity categories?

so-treu:

james-bliss:

And therein lies the rub with what’s Left in the academy. A willed failure of the imagination when it comes to Black feminist theorizing. I want to throw my shoe at everyone who dismisses ‘identity politics’ (without defining it, much less understanding it), but I don’t have enough shoes.

A. MEN.

I concur.

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