Saturday Essay: The Meaning of Identity
The Contemporary Passion for 'Identity' Arises Out of Terror
We are told that we are living in an age of Identity Politics.
What does this mean?
It means that people are anxious to corral themselves into distinct and identifiable social groups ( often for the purposes of gaining some form of compensatory action)
Thus people may be eager to assert their Identity as BIPOC, or Trans, or LB…
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