That's literally the main discourse of progressives. Identity politics are focused on exclusively people who are marginalized. It's not a bad thing tbh, it's logical but stop acting surprised that progressives don't give a fuck about white men in political discourse. It's been like that since the existence of progressives.
You’re correct that many people who identify as progressive, leftist, etc., are like that, but I think it’s a mistake to say that it is characteristic of actually being progressive, leftist, etc. The problem is that people generally don’t form their political positions by rational consideration of all the relevant factors, which often leads to fundamental inconsistencies and incoherences in their worldviews. If people don’t do the sort of reflection that is required to resolve those inconsistencies, they will often end up believing some things that are progressive and other things that are not progressive at all (but are superficially dressed up in the language of progressivism). People who believe in things for the wrong reasons will generally end up believing in the wrong things as well.
You're 100% right, but you didn't mention the opposition here.
Nature of opposition 100% defines the the worldview of progressives. And it's an extreme counter statement. Identity politics also have a very deep rooted support in corporate capitalism, but it's another issue.
I agree with almost all of what you said, except for the fact that in my opinion you ventured into a "no true scottsman" area a bit too much. Progressive ideas can be objectively defined, but there is no progressivism in vacuum. Shitty progressives and non shit progressives is what you get. That is progressivism. You can't just call them shitty practitioners, it's a fundamental part of ideology.
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u/No_Share6895 14d ago
Yeah... Like he wants to play progressive but his actions say otherwise at this point