67 Quotes About Identity-politics

Lezbiyenlik pek açık bir şekilde yasaklanmış değildir, çünkü düşünülebilir, tasavvur edilebilir olana (gerçek ve adlandırılabilir olan şeyleri düzenleyen kültürel anlaşılabilirlik kalıbına) girmenin bir yolunu bulabilmiş dahi sayılmaz. Öyleyse, lezbiyenin var olmadığı bir siyasal bağlamda nasıl bir 'lezbiyen' olunacaktır? Bu, lezbiyenliğe karşı şiddetin kısmen lezbiyenliği söylemin kendisinden dışlayarak sürdüren bir siyasal söylemde mi söz konusu olacaktır?

The national identity is a consumer identity.

Difference is real, and to acknowledge such does no harm to the American identity as a whole. The vibrance of our identity politics reaffirms the complexity of our nation and the underpinning of our founding.

I think, tribalism is a mental prison…and pride of identity coupled with arrogance is one of the leading factors that limit one’s ability to abandon it.

Further, when markers of race, gender, gender fluidity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion and other factors are the only criteria considered in hiring or admissions, students are cheated, as are those chosen to meet diversity measures on the basis of identity alone. Nothing is more essentialist or constraining than diversity understood strictly in terms of identity.

...we have to be aware of the power and importance of organizing not just around identity, but the materiality of daily life, which still, in many respects, is racialized for people of color. You build from that, but you have a grander social vision that transcends it and recognizes the strengths and limitations that are drawn from the particularity of identity.

People even said I was a racist because I shot black bank robbers at the beginning of Dirty Harry. So, first I’m labeled right-wing. Then I’m a racist. Now it’s macho or male chauvinism. It’s a whole number nowadays to make people feel guilty on different levels. It doesn’t bother me because I know where the fuck I am on the planet and I don’t give a shit.

So, I mean, it’s awesome that, uh, you’re a city? Congratulations! I want to be accepting of this new stage in your identity formation.

The way that you set the world straight is by constraining the malevolence in your own heart.(From "Identity politics and the Marxist lie of white privilege" on YouTube)