Coincidentally, I found this piece which covers same of the ground I did – but more eloquently and with less venom — the other day about how it’s to the benefit of the existing power structures that social movements on the Left use identity politics to tear themselves apart.

I am not writing to tell you that we should all give up and hold hands and be friends, that none of the issues within social movements matter. I am not writing to say that we are all one and we should ignore the very real and present injustices within social movements in the interest of taking down the man. But I am writing to say that active policing within social movements, distinguished from legitimate concerns about equality, is harmful, and serves only one purpose: Maintaining the existing status quo.

I wonder if it is even possible for humans to stop policing so stringently who is in and/or out of the tribe? It seems built in to us.

However, much in the past has seemed innate that really was not. So I don’t know. But it is certainly doing the Left no favors at the moment.