Jiang's critical term for postwar individual-rights politics as celebration of individual helplessness and state protection of vulnerable identities.
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Identity politics
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...a cohesive fabric throughout the world? Do you view them as identity politics more so than a pertinent issue of our times?"
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Identity politics is described as a product of the postwar individual-rights order and as the celebration of individual helplessness requiring state protection of vulnerable groups.
Jiang says Occupy Wall Street exposed elite corruption after 2008 and that identity politics was advanced to dissolve class-based revolt and liberal opposition.
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"...to. Like, remove the liberal objections. Right? Because remember. It's for identity politics. Exactly. Right? Because remember. Why do we have identity politics? Because..."
"...might be making it worse regardless of whatever people think about identity politics and all of this regardless of that uh it just to..."
"this will only get smaller uh if you go after particular segments of the population so the U.S is definitely in trouble and you're..."
"...new trends in society that weren't there before. So, for example, identity politics. Okay? Identity politics is one such trend. Identity politics is really..."
"...a cohesive fabric throughout the world? Do you view them as identity politics more so than a pertinent issue of our times?"
"...close and we start talking a lot about geopolitics and American politics, uh, we're both very concerned about DEI, we're both concerned about how..."
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