{"id":39421,"date":"2020-02-24T07:38:02","date_gmt":"2020-02-24T06:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.burks.de\/burksblog\/?p=39421"},"modified":"2020-02-24T07:38:39","modified_gmt":"2020-02-24T06:38:39","slug":"racism-rebranded-oder-beware-the-politics-of-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.burks.de\/burksblog\/2020\/02\/24\/racism-rebranded-oder-beware-the-politics-of-identity","title":{"rendered":"Racism rebranded oder: Beware the politics of identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kenan Malik gibt im Guardian<\/a> der deutschen „Linken“ und dem gr\u00fcnen Milieu eine Klatsche: „Beware the politics of identity. They help legitimise the toxic far right“.<\/p>\n

Er hat nat\u00fcrlich, wie es im Juristenjargon heisst,vollinhaltlich<\/i> recht, aber niemand wird das h\u00f6ren wollen. Gender und „Diversity“ haben den Klassenstandpunkt ersetzt. Die gef\u00fchlte Linke hierzulande macht die Rechte stark und liefert denen die Argumente. Die Rechte muss den kleinb\u00fcrgerlichen Lifestyle-Mist nur ein bisschen anders kost\u00fcmieren.<\/p>\n

If the right\u2019s obsession with immigration has helped give new legitimacy to arguments of the far right, so has the left\u2019s blindness to the consequences of the politics of identity. Many on the left now embrace the idea that one\u2019s interests and values are defined primarily by one\u2019s ethnic or cultural or gender identity.<\/i><\/p>\n

The politics of identity is, however, at root the politics of the reactionary right. The original politics of identity was that of racial difference, the insistence that one\u2019s racial identity determines one\u2019s moral and social place in the world. Now, identitarians of the far right are seizing upon the opportunity provided by the left\u2019s adoption of identity politics to legitimise their once-toxic brand.<\/i><\/p>\n

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