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Identity politics hides issues like this more than anything. A poor black person in a ghetto and a poor white one in a trailer park should be the same voting block but they've been polarized by both sides trying to lock down their demographics.

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This is what intersectionality addresses. It's meant to address all forms of oppression, including race, class, gender identity, sexuality, sex, religion, ethnicity, etc.

I honestly don't understand why intersectionality has become this bogeyman for mainstream liberals. It attempts to bring people together to fight for common interests.

Are you saying poor black and white people are too naive to vote for themselves? Should they vote the way we tell them to? Is principled politics a luxury of the privileged?

I'm not a fan of this meme.

I'm saying the political system is far to tribalistic. We all fall for tribalism but it seems to have become way to set in lately.

I'll agree with that. We discuss membership in groups, not ideas. It's signalling and dog whistles all the way down.

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