The weird, liberal “respect politics” seeps easily into progressive/leftist ideology but they shouldn’t be connected. In America at least, liberal identity politics has really corrupted progressive action.
And no, I don’t mean advocating for the rights of marginalized groups, I am talking about the idea we have in our heads in leftist spaces that we’re somehow supposed to be the tolerant, passive, “intellectual” side. While wearing Che Guevara shirts.
The weird, liberal “respect politics” seeps easily into progressive/leftist ideology but they shouldn’t be connected. In America at least, liberal identity politics has really corrupted progressive action.
And no, I don’t mean advocating for the rights of marginalized groups, I am talking about the idea we have in our heads in leftist spaces that we’re somehow supposed to be the tolerant, passive, “intellectual” side. While wearing Che Guevara shirts.