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Nolte, Mittwoch, 05.12.2018, 14:31 (vor 2580 Tagen) @ Sven

Ich erlaube mir einfach mal, alle Interessierten auf einen der besseren Texte zu verweisen, die ich in diesem Jahr gelesen habe.
"Against Identity Politics" von Francis Fukuyama

sas.upenn.edu/andrea-mitchell-center/francis-fukuyama-against-identity-politics
(auch auf "Foreign Policy" zu finden, aber dort muss man sich kostenfrei registrieren)

Was Identitätspolitik bedeutet, die dominante Denkrichtung linker Intellektueller im Moment, wird darin gut erklärt (ich hoffe, die Länge des Zitats ist in Ordnung - der gesamte Text ist wesentlich länger und hat noch sehr viel mehr zu bieten als das):

This presented each marginalized group with a choice: it could demand that society treat its members the same way it treated the members of dominant groups, or it could assert a separate identity for its members and demand respect for them as different from the mainstream society. Over time, the latter strategy tended to win out: the early civil rights movement of Martin Luther King, Jr., demanded that American society treat black people the way it treated white people. By the end of the 1960s, however, groups such as the Black Panthers and the Nation of Islam emerged and argued that black people had their own traditions and consciousness; in their view, black people needed to take pride in themselves for who they were and not heed what the broader society wanted them to be. The authentic inner selves of black Americans were not the same as those of white people, they argued; they were shaped by the unique experience of growing up black in a hostile society dominated by whites. That experience was defined by violence, racism, and denigration and could not be appreciated by people who grew up in different circumstances.

Multiculturalism has become a vision of a society fragmented into many small groups with distinct experiences.

These themes have been taken up in today’s Black Lives Matter movement, which began with demands for justice for individual victims of police violence but soon broadened into an effort to make people more aware of the nature of day-to-day existence for black Americans. Writers such as Ta-Nehisi Coates have connected contemporary police violence against African Americans to the long history of slavery and lynching. In the view of Coates and others, this history constitutes part of an unbridgeable gulf of understanding between blacks and whites.

A similar evolution occurred within the feminist movement. The demands of the mainstream movement were focused on equal treatment for women in employment, education, the courts, and so on. But from the beginning, an important strand of feminist thought proposed that the consciousness and life experiences of women were fundamentally different from those of men and that the movement’s aim should not be to simply facilitate women’s behaving and thinking like men.