List: Identitarianism, Intersectionality, and Privilege | Curated by Will Shetterly

Nov 7, 2022
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Identitarianism, Intersectionality, and Privilege
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What Is Identitarianism? (An Introduction.)Note: This is the current draft of an introduction to a collection of my posts on identitarianism, so the quotes in the third paragraph…
Apr 12, 2022
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Apr 12, 2022
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Three Proofs that Whiteness is No Longer a PrivilegeThis should be an obvious truth: People try to get privileges legally if they can and illegally if they can’t. When whiteness was a…
Feb 7, 2022
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Feb 7, 2022
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Since 1965: Winning the Identity Wars, Losing the Class War“With everything going on, where do you think we are now? Are you still thinking 1950s? I’m thinking 1880s.” —Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The…
Jan 31, 2022
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Jan 31, 2022
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Why Black Women are now Privileged, but Black Men are still Penalized“the black-white intergenerational gap in individual incomes is driven almost entirely by men. We find gaps for men of about 11 percentiles…
Jan 27, 2022
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Jan 27, 2022
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What Is Identitarianism? Why Do Neoliberals Love It? Why Won’t Wikipedia Define It Fully?The Oxford English Dictionary defines identitarianism as
Jan 13, 2022
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Jan 13, 2022
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The Problem with Proportionality if your Goal is Justice“The movement for racial justice has shifted its focus from inequality to “disparity,” while neatly evading any critique of the structures…
Dec 6, 2021
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Dec 6, 2021
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No, John Scalzi and Wil Wheaton, “Straight White Male” is not the Lowest Difficulty SettingIn Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is, John Scalzi compared the real world to a computer game and concluded…
Nov 9, 2021
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Nov 9, 2021
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Nine Problems with identitarianismIdentitarians claim to be the true representatives of their social identity.
Nov 7, 2021
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Nov 7, 2021
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The Problem with Privilege TheoryIn the history of the Civil Rights Movement, the word “privilege” rarely occurs. In the 1960s, most of us believed the majority had rights…
Nov 6, 2021
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Nov 6, 2021
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The Origins of Identitarianism and Identity Politics, or Divided We FallIdentitarianism: An ideology or political agenda which seeks to defend or promote the interests of a particular social, racial, or…
Sep 25, 2021
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Sep 25, 2021
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The Disconnectionality of IntersectionalityWhen I first heard about intersectionality, a word adopted and promoted by Critical Race Theorist Kimberlé Crenshaw, I was conflicted. I…
Sep 23, 2021
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Sep 23, 2021
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Why a universalist hates capitalizing racial terms like ‘black’ and ‘white’The other day, several white women came onto my Facebook page and demanded that I capitalize black when writing about race. I told them…
Oct 8, 2020
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Oct 8, 2020
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The Meaninglessness of “Lived Experience”: on Jessica Krug, Rachel Dolezal, and Passing as BlackIn the eyes of racists and antiracists alike, Jessica Krug and Rachel Dolezal are white women who passed as black. Racists laugh at them…
Sep 4, 2020
Sep 4, 2020
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Three Kinds of Identity Politics: Traditional, Socialist, and Neoliberal1. Traditional identity politics
Jun 3, 2020
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Jun 3, 2020
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The Political Cube — the Political Compass plus universalism vs identitarianismMany third dimensions could be added to the Political Compass, but the one that seems most relevant today is the divide between…
Dec 5, 2018
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Dec 5, 2018
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