Identity politics survived COVID-19

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Is there anything left to say about identity politics? Its supporters have crossed every line in pursuit of their demented ideology, attacking black people for not being anti-racist enough, mobbing gay people for being insufficiently exercised about transgender rights, and pursuing leftist icons.

Its critics, for their part, have picked over wokery like vultures tearing the last gobbets of meat from a carcass. They have pointed out its intolerance (“That’s the wrong acronym! Sack her!”), its inconsistency (“We’re all the same! Celebrate diversity!”), its irrationality (“My feelings trump your facts, white-splainer!”) and its impatience (“Who cares if everyone was saying that until the day before yesterday?”).

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