The identity politics trap

Created
Mon, 04/05/2026 - 23:57
Updated
Mon, 04/05/2026 - 23:57
Displacement … is not the only problem: the identity politics model of recognition tends also to reify identity. Stressing the need to elaborate and display an authentic, self-affirming and self-generated collective identity, it puts moral pressure on individual members to conform to a given group culture. Cultural dissidence and experimentation are accordingly discouraged, when they […]