2020 Dems "go all in on identity politics"

[Progressive Pessimist]

Enough with this vague notion of "identity politics" and s***. All electoral politics involves identity. Stop denigrating real issues that people care about by hand-waving them away with this stupid buzzword.

[Progressive Pessimist]

If Dems really go all in on identity politics, than i would hope that Trump wins a second term. They'll never learn it.

So Republican appeals to men based on being "disadvantaged" by "fake accusations" like they did after the Kavanaugh fracas doesn't qualify as "identity politics" to you?

[Progressive Pessimist]

The Democrats should not abandon racial justice issues. That's a straw man... and there's nothing wrong with what Warren, Gillibrand, and Sanders are quoted by in this article. But... anyone who actually pays attention to social justice warriors knows they go farther than that. They'll say stuff like you can't be racist against white people (false), that if white people want to be allies to POC they need to leave their own minds and expectation of respect at the door, that all white people are racist, that no white person they've ever met can be trusted with good advice for them... it's racism. Sure politicians aren't endorsing these views, but it's in the underbelly.

This. You can be pro-social justice but anti-SJW. Most concrete criticism of "SJWs" I've seen online and among my RL friend group has been on gender issues and radical Islam.

But "SJW" is such a vague buzzword that it seems to mean whatever to people want to define it as. Some would describe advocacy of social justice at all as being an "SJW." It's a term that needs to not be used unirionically. It's does nothing but muddy the waters.