I like most of Laurie Penny’s writing quite a lot, but this kind of self-flagellating is what hobbles the left beyond all measure.

When I write about sexuality and gender, a great deal of what people tell me they connect to most are the personal stories. But as a white middle-class woman with cis privilege, how do i make it clear that I’m not trying to make my story representative? >

— Laurie Penny (@PennyRed) July 22, 2018

No one is asking your story to be representative of all stories, and everyone worth listening to knows that is not what you or anyone is attempting. This is one of the major reasons why the left can’t get anything done — always in the game of oppression olympics, defending against oppression olympics, or in the back closet whipping themselves bloody because they are white or cis-presenting or some other horseshit like that.

This gets nothing done. Identity politics ruined the left politically. Seems to be getting worse rather than better.