Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Identity Politics and Sublation

'Identity Politics' signifies a prominent American political agenda that seeks to eliminate prejudice against an individual person on the basis of some type under which they are subsumed, usually a race, a gender, or a sexual orientation.  Often, the ideals guiding the agenda are Diversity and Equality.  However, the former is susceptible to tokenism, and the latter, to homogenization.  So, preferable to both might be Integration, but that condition does not necessarily preclude a suppressive factor.  In contrast, Sublation combines while preserving differences.  But, that process is a feature of Dialectical Logic, which, aside from being little known in America, is significantly associated elsewhere with Class-Conflict, a problem that Identity Politics neglects, perhaps, deliberately.

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