Identity Politics

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• May We Wake up Small and Pale

  
  Whiskey Fire — Authority: 612
  I feel my ankles have been gummed/ Something wingnut this way comes ... Apparently this post has dismayed the Cayuga Cretin. (After the jump, by the way, I discuss a detailed plan for holding William Jacobsen in suspense.) The fear that conservatives would point out the obvious about this terrorist attack ...
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• Identity politics vs class politics - 7: The neo-liberal/social-liberal tradeoff in the 4th Labour Govt

  
  liberation — Authority: 415
  One of the most perplexing questions in the history of the left in New Zealand has been: Why was it a Labour Party that implemented the radical anti-worker neoliberal reforms? What’s more, why did the ‘left’ of the party allow the programme of Rogernomics to be implemented? The answer is partly that the Labour ...
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• Identity Politics You Can Believe In

  
  This Is So Gay — Authority: 127
  I had an odd, educational conversation in a gay chat room earlier today. I was making small talk with another American, whos about to make his first trip to Korea; he is from California, and mentioned how upset he was by Proposition 8. We agreed that the No on 8 campaign had not been very well run, and I said ...
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• Racism in China: A Reality Show and The Black Pearl

  
  Mad Minerva 2.0 — Authority: 142
  OK, silly movie title shout-out aside, this example of racism in China is illuminating in a sad way. I suppose we could call it "bumblebee racism" since its yellow-on-black. Its the story of Lou Jing , whose mother is Chinese and father is African-American: " . . . I often got more attention than the other ...
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• Identity politics vs class politics - 6: The transformation of social liberalism into neo-liberalism

  
  liberation — Authority: 415
  An examination of the history of left politics in New Zealand since the 1960s shows how liberal identity politics has actually aided the forces of the right in carrying out and maintaining the neoliberal project. This has occurred in various ways. At one level on the left there has simply been a shift since the late ...
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• Identity politics vs class politics - 5: What is identity politics?

  
  liberation — Authority: 415
  Increasingly the debates around New Zealand politics – especially relating to the left – feature concepts such as ‘identity politics’ and ‘social liberalism’. These terms are especially useful for understanding the history of Labour Party over the last thirty years, as well as for understanding the ...
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• Why, Ruth, Its Almost As Big A Mystery...

  
  Ambush Predator — Authority: 443
  ...as the ones in your novels , isnt it? The author and life peer Ruth Rendell , who has campaigned against FGM for 10 years, said: "When I helped take the Bill through Parliament seven years ago, I was very hopeful that wed get convictions and that would then act as a deterrent for other people. But that has ...
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• Identity politics vs class politics - 4: Understanding Labour’s tilt to the left

  
  liberation — Authority: 415
  Phil Goff’s recent controversial speech, criticising the Maori and National parties, has been misread as a shift to the right. As explained in this blog series about ‘identity politics vs class politics’, Goff’s speech was in fact the opposite – actually quite a left-turn. This particular blog post ...
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• Obama Police State? -Black D.C. Cop pulls a Gun, at people who pelted his hummer with Snowballs

  
  Political Byline — Authority: 601
  This comes via Reason TV : (H/T Gateway Pundit ) Related Via View From the Right : Tina writes: I am a simple school bus driver. Here is a conversation I heard. Last year we had an Iranian girl who loudly proclaimed, when the school was in its Patriotic Songs Celebration (“This Land Is Your Land,” ...
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• Quote of the Day

  
  Political Byline — Authority: 601
  The real entitlements are never mentioned. The “defense” budget is an entitlement for the military-security complex about which President Eisenhower warned us 50 years ago. A person has to be crazy to believe that the United States, “the world’s only superpower,” protected by oceans on its East and West ...
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• A Perspective On "The Key Is To Emotionally Involve Others-But How?" by anna123

  
  Alpha Asian — Authority: 128
  Hi to AMR, and welcome as a new blogger to the family of Alpha Asians! The following is an opinion piece response to AMRs previous post : On "The Key Is To Emotionally Involve Others-But How?" . Everyones got their own ideas, that what they believe is the best way. I agree with AMR that the most ...
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• So Very Proud to Show the Mess Theyve Made

  
  Whiskey Fire — Authority: 612
  Shorter Wingnuttia , in response to this : Lets hear it for Red China, making Obambi look like a fag. Thats so cool. No, really. " Speak to the wrist " -- the limp wrist! Noted asshole Dan Riehl: "Stomping his feet is out. Michelle wont tolerate it around the kids, from him, anyway. You dropped your gauntlet ...
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• Post-Racial Presidency = More Racially Motivated Prosecutions

  
  Conservative Compendium — Authority: 133
  New “civil rights chief” is “shocked” by how few criminal prosecutions were distorted by the prism of race during the previous administration: The Obama administration’s new civil rights chief said Thursday that he was “shocked” to learn of the steep decline in hate-crime prosecutions during the Bush ...
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• Race, Ethnicity, and Identity Politics in South Korea

  
  Mad Minerva 2.0 — Authority: 142
  Heres a little lesson for all the bubbleheaded multiculturalists who havent an actual clue about other peoples and nations. Ive run into plenty of folks who dont know anything about "Asia" other than the its "cool and exotic." Things are way more complicated than that. Heres a case study of identity politics in ...
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• Toby Keith Racist? Uproar Over Asian Hand Gesture (VIDEO)

  
  Sapere Aude! — Authority: 122
  Toby Keith Racist? Uproar Over Asian Hand Gesture (VIDEO) . A rep for the Asian American Justice Center told TMZ, "Toby Keith embarrassed himself and his country, denigrated the Noble Peace Prize and offended Asians and Asian Americans by using a crude, racist hand gesture." Keiths rep just said, "nobody at the ...
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• Racial Snitches

  
  Conservative Compendium — Authority: 133
  RS McCain describes a disturbing phenomenon: In recent years I’ve noticed that those who most relentlessly charge others with racism are white people who, by pointing the accusing finger, seek to make a public display of their own colorblind virtue: Not only am I not a racist, but I am such an enlightened and ...
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• Identity politics vs class politics - 1: Introduction

  
  liberation — Authority: 415
  Phil Goff has recently challenged issues that are at the core of socially liberal politics in New Zealand. The Labour Party leader has recently asserted a more class-oriented and leftwing version of politics, effectively seeking to shift Labour away from a core part of its project of the last three decade: liberal ...
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• Democrats Launch Race Based Sneak Attack On Hawaii

  
  Conservative Compendium — Authority: 133
  President Obama offered up a lot of unifying, post-racial rhetoric during the campaign.  It was pure, grade-A bull***t.  You see, even while spouting this nonsense, he was pledging support for the racist Native Hawaiian Government Reorganization Act of 2009 , which Congressional Democrats are preparing to pass ...
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• Egbert’s Identity/Racial Politics Paranoia on AGBell, NAD, Deleted Comment From Me

  
  Under The Hill — Authority: 114
  John Egbert posted a blog in AGBell.info, exhibiting his paranoia and rumormongering regarding AGBell, especially when he suggested that National Association of the Deaf should have a black deaf leader to be the CEO of NAD to “frighten” AGBell before Congress. His first paragraph has a long running-on sentence, ...
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• I Though ‘Pregnancy Wasn’t An Illness Or Disability’..?

  
  Ambush Predator — Authority: 443
  Well, so much for that theory then… Pregnant women could be allowed to park their cars in dedicated bays to save them having to walk so far to reach shops and supermarkets. Ummm, surely you don’t mean like… Oh. You do: Women would have the same rights as disabled blue badge holders during their ...
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