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2016 Postmortem

JCanete

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7. Language is far more living and evolving than that. It wasn't handed down on tablets from heaven.

Reply to BobbyDrake (Reply #5)

Wed Dec 14, 2016, 01:24 PM

Dec 2016

Words that meant one thing 50 years ago might mean something different today. Usage, whether in your opinion faulty or not, changes meaning.

That said, I'm not invested in saying we should be redefining identity politics. Sanders probably should have used tokenism instead, since identity politics seems to commonly imply that the policies are addressing the needs of these identity groups.

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There seems to be a lot of handwringing about the term Identity Politics and what it means [View all] La Lioness Priyanka Dec 2016 OP

Are you pulling my leg? NCTraveler Dec 2016 #1

lol. wish i were pulling your leg. La Lioness Priyanka Dec 2016 #2

well terms mean whatever they do by the person using them.Words mean different things in JCanete Dec 2016 #3

in sanders case he used it incorrectly. he was talking about tokenism and called it identity La Lioness Priyanka Dec 2016 #4

TIL "Identity Politics" and "Being PC" mean something else when Bernie says it. SaschaHM Dec 2016 #8

I was just excoriated for be "party of politics" WhiteTara Dec 2016 #11

We may be living "post-truth," but we're not "post-dictionary" yet. BobbyDrake Dec 2016 #5

+1 La Lioness Priyanka Dec 2016 #6

Language is far more living and evolving than that. It wasn't handed down on tablets from heaven. JCanete Dec 2016 #7

language evolves, but this was just straight up incorrect usage of a RW term that derides civil La Lioness Priyanka Dec 2016 #10

Who's wringing their hands? White dudes? nt LexVegas Dec 2016 #9

Shhh! WhiteTara Dec 2016 #12