Identity Politics Quotes

Identity Politics Quote of the day

Minority conservatives hold a special place of gutter contempt in the minds of unhinged liberals, who can never accept the radical concept of a person of color rejecting identity politics.

Giving votes in exchange for ideological support. To wit: identity politics for homosexuals.

A whole lot of the way identity politics has gone seems to me to deny empathy.

Identity politics are becoming less important since culture's being blended into one big thing - I look at kids' Tumblrs and they're all into the same things.

In the coming decades, questions of identity, meaning cultural heritage, language, and religion will play a central role in politics.

We must not be anything other than what we are.

Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.

I'm not a big fan of identity politics and sort of picking one thing and defining yourself with it.

In modern societies, some members of ethnic minority groups do not want to feel compelled to heed the voices of their communities when participating as citizens.

Is that really the issue [of bathrooms and gender] we want to be pushing leading up to a momentous election like this one? It's that shortsightedness that comes from identity politics.

In America, we have a bifurcated country, we have a polarized country. One of the reasons I think it's polarized is because of identity politics on the left.

It's interesting how identity politics and Ann Coulter-style tactics have now blossomed. But they were always there in CPAC.

We're not going to be living in a world where white identity politics is the basis for a major political party.

Identity politics isn't old school! It's still alive and well.

Identity politics are wearisome; you don't want to go on speaking for any one group as a writer.

I don't think that the "freedom movement" is a racist movement as such. But it's a virulent example of identity politics. "Whiteness" is part of the identity, but not the most important part.

The demand for racial (and sexual) justice gets reduced to politics of identity - and excoriating the so-called perpetrators of the identity politics.

Know your number. If you don’t know it you might forget who you are.

You and I are the remains of an unfulfilled legacy, heirs to a kingdom of stolen identities and ragged confusion.

... being true to the multitudes within himself that are one and many.

The tension between people is palpable, and the ideal of what it means to be and look American becomes a preoccupation to folks around the country, including me.

If you can't see past my name, you can't see me.

Discovering that I was adopted redefined my entire world, but it taught me that who you are doesn't change.