Sponsored Content
« Can't Think Of A Title Other Than, Hah Hah Hah Hah! | Main | Tucker Carlson Embarrassed DNC Stenographer, Politico "Reporter" Jonathan Allen »
November 18, 2016

NYT: Hillary's Loss Represents the Death of Liberal Identity Politics

If only!

[T]he fixation on diversity in our schools and in the press has produced a generation of liberals and progressives narcissistically unaware of conditions outside their self-defined groups, and indifferent to the task of reaching out to Americans in every walk of life. At a very young age our children are being encouraged to talk about their individual identities, even before they have them. By the time they reach college many assume that diversity discourse exhausts political discourse, and have shockingly little to say about such perennial questions as class, war, the economy and the common good....

When young people arrive at college they are encouraged to keep this focus on themselves by student groups, faculty members and also administrators whose full-time job is to deal with -- and heighten the significance of -- "diversity issues." Fox News and other conservative media outlets make great sport of mocking the "campus craziness" that surrounds such issues, and more often than not they are right to. Which only plays into the hands of populist demagogues who want to delegitimize learning in the eyes of those who have never set foot on a campus. How to explain to the average voter the supposed moral urgency of giving college students the right to choose the designated gender pronouns to be used when addressing them? How not to laugh along with those voters at the story of a University of Michigan prankster who wrote in "His Majesty"?

...

The media's newfound, almost anthropological, interest in the angry white male reveals as much about the state of our liberalism as it does about this much maligned, and previously ignored, figure. A convenient liberal interpretation of the recent presidential election would have it that Mr. Trump won in large part because he managed to transform economic disadvantage into racial rage -- the "whitelash" thesis. This is convenient because it sanctions a conviction of moral superiority and allows liberals to ignore what those voters said were their overriding concerns...

Eh, it's not great, but it's interesting that they have not completely sealed themselves in a bubble.

Not completely.


digg this
posted by Ace at 07:24 PM

| Access Comments




Recent Comments
Ciampino - always love the ladies in these metal bands: "57 Ah, they're Dutch. Isn't The Gathering Dutch t ..."

Village Idiot's Apprentice: "G'morning, all. Finished the last dose of the 1 ..."

Puddleglum: "[i]56 Joo hater Roger Waters is being investigated ..."

Puddleglum: "Ciampino, Ah, they're Dutch. Isn't The Gatheri ..."

San Franpsycho: "Joo hater Roger Waters is being investigated for p ..."

Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere [/i] [/b]: "Re: nightmares, I guess it's the melatonin. I onl ..."

Ciampino --- No bird shit at Monaco?: "44 Evening and morning to all the satellites in sp ..."

Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere [/i] [/b]: "[i]Wolfus, you need to smoke more weed. That will ..."

Bruce: "On top of that, I was smoking a pipe out in the ra ..."

Puddleglum: "I stopped taking melatonin after my Spirit Animal ..."

Bruce: "Wolfus, LeMans is 2-3 weeks away and it is a bi ..."

San Franpsycho: "Wolfus, you need to smoke more weed. That will eli ..."

Recent Entries
Search


Polls! Polls! Polls!
Frequently Asked Questions
The (Almost) Complete Paul Anka Integrity Kick
Top Top Tens
Greatest Hitjobs

The Ace of Spades HQ Sex-for-Money Skankathon
A D&D Guide to the Democratic Candidates
Margaret Cho: Just Not Funny
More Margaret Cho Abuse
Margaret Cho: Still Not Funny
Iraqi Prisoner Claims He Was Raped... By Woman
Wonkette Announces "Morning Zoo" Format
John Kerry's "Plan" Causes Surrender of Moqtada al-Sadr's Militia
World Muslim Leaders Apologize for Nick Berg's Beheading
Michael Moore Goes on Lunchtime Manhattan Death-Spree
Milestone: Oliver Willis Posts 400th "Fake News Article" Referencing Britney Spears
Liberal Economists Rue a "New Decade of Greed"
Artificial Insouciance: Maureen Dowd's Word Processor Revolts Against Her Numbing Imbecility
Intelligence Officials Eye Blogs for Tips
They Done Found Us Out, Cletus: Intrepid Internet Detective Figures Out Our Master Plan
Shock: Josh Marshall Almost Mentions Sarin Discovery in Iraq
Leather-Clad Biker Freaks Terrorize Australian Town
When Clinton Was President, Torture Was Cool
What Wonkette Means When She Explains What Tina Brown Means
Wonkette's Stand-Up Act
Wankette HQ Gay-Rumors Du Jour
Here's What's Bugging Me: Goose and Slider
My Own Micah Wright Style Confession of Dishonesty
Outraged "Conservatives" React to the FMA
An On-Line Impression of Dennis Miller Having Sex with a Kodiak Bear
The Story the Rightwing Media Refuses to Report!
Our Lunch with David "Glengarry Glen Ross" Mamet
The House of Love: Paul Krugman
A Michael Moore Mystery (TM)
The Dowd-O-Matic!
Liberal Consistency and Other Myths
Kepler's Laws of Liberal Media Bias
John Kerry-- The Splunge! Candidate
"Divisive" Politics & "Attacks on Patriotism" (very long)
The Donkey ("The Raven" parody)
Powered by
Movable Type 2.64