Identity Politics Is a Disaster in So Many Ways

Much of what Identity Politics (IP) demands that we believe is simply false. It’s propaganda for Blacks, womenor whoever, designed to make them feel good about themselves.

That’s very nice for their self-esteem, but that certainly doesn’t mean it’s true. There’s no such thing as “if it makes you feel good, it’s true, and if it doesn’t, it’s false.”

Sure, your ego tells you that sort of thing all the time, but those ideas rest in the privacy of your head and are not peddled about as ideas du jour.

And where it isn’t straight up lie, IP is often tautological or violates some other logical fallacy. In particular most of the what Identity Politics calls facts are simply not falsifiable.

Identity Politics people start from the idea that the ideology or hypothesis is an absolute fact. Then they go about dredging up silly alternate facts to back it up.

You’re supposed to start out with an unknown hypothesis or theory where you have no idea whether it is true or not. Then you test it out with …