The Identity Trick, plus Ten Jewish Heroes

Identitarians on the right and left love the identity trick: the easiest and most despicable way to deflect criticism is to claim it comes from hate for who you are instead of what you do. The trick works more than it should because sometimes it’s true to a degree, though never to the degree that identitarians claim. There were anti-Catholics who opposed Mussolini, white racists who opposed Obama, and male sexists who opposed Clinton, but that does not mean anti-fascism is code for anti-Catholicism or that opposing neoliberalism is racist or sexist. The identity trick is revealed by the exceptions its players have to make. The identitarians who claimed opposing Clinton was sexist never argued that opposing Sanders was antisemitic, even though <a href="https://news.gallup.com/poll/254120/less-half-vote-socialist-president.aspx" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">in 2015</a>, 92% of US voters were willing to vote for a woman and only 91% were willing to vote for a Jew. <a href="https://comrademorlock.medium.com/the-identity-trick-plus-ten-jewish-heroes-7b50fce724dc">Click Here</a>