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I think we have been able to box in the more unfortunate elements of the right. That’s probably a consequence, mostly, of moral deliberations undertaken after World War II. We seem to have come to a pretty general consensus, I would say, that claims of ethnic or racial superiority place you outside…

— Jordan B. Peterson, youtube.com

I think Jordan Peterson has probably done the best job of describing the dangers of identity politics. Call it out for what it is and then provide an alternative. The alternative is that we're a united people, and we're all individuals, and what matters is the content of our character.

— Dan Crenshaw, dailywire.com

It’s used like a weapon. What it means is, ‘I don’t want to think about your concerns. I don’t want to have to extend my empathy.’

— Roxane Gay, theguardian.com

The whole concept of an individual who exists apart from group identity is slipping from the discourse.

— Andrew Sullivan, nymag.com

Somebody will call me and ask me to come to a march because such and such got shot. In that situation I want to know what really happened. I’m not going to jump up and go march just because I’m green and the person who got shot is green. The rush to get mad doesn’t make sense to me.

— Erykah Badu, vulture.com

When people say “Why do you have to make everything political?’ they’re using “political” to refer to the social messaging that’s inherent in any work about race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability, size, class, religious minorities, etc. Let’s cut to the chase: They mean, “I do not wish to ex…

— @bittergertrude, t.co

I have learned through writing about my interests and myself, that anyone who chooses to ignore any part of you, or hates any part of you, can never really know you.

— Kovie Biakolo, thoughtcatalog.com

My most salient marked identities are that I’m African, Black, Catholic, and a woman...this tends to complicate people’s perception of me; it makes relating to all parts of me, difficult, for them...many people don’t seem to know what to do when complexity of self is embraced rather than denied. And…

— Kovie Biakolo, thoughtcatalog.com

The fact that cis women never seem to grasp that trans women have a different relationship with being addressed as ‘man/dude/bro’ is endlessly worrying to me. You can’t use a word that’s explicitly a gendered term - literally the word ‘man’ or ‘brother’ in an ungendered way. It would be like me cook…

— trantifa, trantifa.tumblr.com

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