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+====The politics of identity entrenches neoliberal individualism that is a modern divide and conquer tactic of the elite. We should stop focusing on the symptoms and start focusing on the root cause of exclusion, which is capitalism==== |
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+Felipe, 13 Alex, "Cough Syrup Politics: Fighting Symptoms, Ignoring Root Causes," http://alexfelipe.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/cough-syrup-politics-fighting-symptoms-ignoring-root-causes/, Vitz |
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+Here's the thing. I'm equal parts sympathetic, and confused and saddened, by |
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+It makes it so that there is **no chance** of making the **systemic changes** |
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+====Stereotypes of Asians are social technologies deployed to stabilize labor relations—the stigmas they describe are just an extension of underlying ideologies of ascriptive differences. Marxist analysis is key to demystify the role of identity within class conflict—voting aff just makes neoliberalism more efficient by embracing difference as such.==== |
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+Reed 2013 – professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in race and American politics. He has taught at Yale, Northwestern and the New School for Social Research. An expert on racial and economic inequality, he is a founding member of the Labor Party and a frequent contributor to The Nation (Adolph, New Labor Forum 22.1, "Marx, Race, and Neoliberalism") |
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+A Marxist perspective can be most helpful for understanding race and racism insofar as it |
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+to be unthinkable without racism, today it is also unthinkable without antiracism. |
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+====You have an a priori ethical obligation to reject capitalism because it makes its victims anonymous.==== |
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+Zizek and Daly 04 |
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+~~Glyn. Lecturer in International Studies at the University College Northampton; Slavoj Zizek, world famous philosophy on psychoanalysis and capitalism; Conversations with Žižek. 14-19~~ |
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+For Žižek it is imperative that we cut through this Gordian knot of postmodern protocol |
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+political boutiquism that is readily sustained by postmodern forms of consumerism and lifestyle. |
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+====The alternative is class analysis first==== |
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+Mollow 4 Anna Mollow, "IDENTITY POLITICS ANDDISABILITY STUDIES:A CRITIQUE OF RECENT THEORY" University of Michigan Quarterly Review, 2004 quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=mqr;c=mqr;c=mqrarchive;idno=act2080.0043.218;rgn=main;view=text;xc=1;g=mqrg |
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+Treating disagreements about identity politics in terms of a divide between conservatives and progressives, |
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+poverty level, regardless of what workplace accommodations they secure. ~~9~~ |