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Jim Goad: How the Left Strangled Itself With Identity Politics

December 5, 2016 By Kathy Shaidle

Jim Goad writes:

Their myopic obsession with anti-white identity politics created a new white identity politics from scratch. They preached identity for everyone except whites—and they apparently are so dim, they expected that to work out well. This is not the old, aggressive, continent-conquering “white racism” of yore—this is a new, defensive white identity created by the endless scapegoating and minority-obsessed myopia of the leftist elites. This is a monster that the left created, one that will eat it whole.

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