I'm damn tired of people who claim to be the left

[Caliman73]

405. Because I understand what the OP is trying to convey.

While I may not necessarily agree with the absolute tone of the post, I do think that the use of the term "identity politics" and admonishment of the Democrats by other Democrats and allies is not a good thing. "Identity Politics" has been an exclusive domain of conservatives, for use in ginning up resentment from their base, which is overwhelmingly White, or very narrowly, minority voters who have acculturated and accepted the "American (White) Way" to be superior to any other experience.

As I said in my previous posts, once we start adopting their framing and language, we do their work for them. The problem is that when you speak about the economic social struggles of Black people, or Latinos, Asians, women, LGBT people, etc... you are also speaking about economic struggle in general. However, the reverse is not true. When you generalize the discussion to economic struggle, by default, the needs of the majority population and the normative/dominant culture are what is front and center, and the additional struggles of marginalized populations are pushed to the back.

The conservative and corporate media (which are different) will always focus on those areas that divide liberals and moderates rather than on commonalities. It is easier to have us fighting by using resentments that women may have against men, or White people against Black people, or Hetero and cisgender people against LGBT people. It should not be that Black people, women, and other groups should "quiet down" it should be that all Liberals and allies should include all marginalized groups in their general message. That is why when people say, we should not focus "exclusively on Identity Politics" it upsets people because we really don't ever focus exclusively on it as a party message. The struggle is covered and highlighted by the media because conflict sells a lot better than more than 55% of the population demanding good jobs, equal pay, equitable distributions of the fruits of labor and goods of society, and non-discrimination.