The 2019 Hannah Arendt Center conference at Bard, "Racism and Antisemitism," at which Thomas Chatterton Williams was a speaker. Photo by Karl Rabe
So much of what has catapulted race and racial identity into the mainstream over the past 10 years has been molded by our political climate. Of course, this emphasis on identity politics happens on the left as well as the right—and it’s growing. “It’s a bad strategy to have an identity-based strategy on the left,” says Williams. “Deemphasizing identity all around would help our politics because we would have to pay more attention to the issues. We may have to pay more attention to class if we didn’t have these self-defeating identity agendas.”
Post Date: 11-08-2019
