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EvenSpoonier posted...

It can be. Identity politics is always a form of pandering, pretty much by definition. We all know how that sort of thing works.

But there are other ways to pander. Case in point: in this particular moment in American politics, deliberate attempts to avoid playing identity politics are often seen as pandering to straight white males. It's literally the opposite of identity politics, but pandering nonetheless.

You could argue that making deliberate attempts to avoid identity politics is more so appealing to the people who arent being focussed on with identity politics (ie. white men), as basically an excuse to flaunt about how some kind of minority is holding them back, essentially acting as another kind of identity politics, just like being straightforward about it. In the past we basically just called it appealing to demographics this isnt new

Nobody is really trying to avoid identity politics in this day and age, its just who is being targeted.