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== Updating the critiques of identity politics ==
== Updating the critiques of identity politics ==


The content on this page summarizing and characterizing the criticisms of identity politics was narrow and academic and needed updating with the current and latest criticisms found in mainstream political criticisms and reporting following the 2016 election cycle. My additions are aimed at doing that, with citation to the work of credible contemporary political commentators.
The content on this page summarizing and characterizing the criticisms of identity politics was narrow and academic and needed updating with the current and latest criticisms found in mainstream political criticism and reporting following the 2016 election cycle. My additions are aimed at doing that, with citation to the work of credible contemporary political commentators.

Revision as of 18:55, 21 July 2019

removing incongruous illustration

One gets the feeling one arrived at the wrong article when one sees the illustration of James Madison. An article pertaining to the "latter part of the 20th century" need not be illustrated by a topmost image dating back to the nineteenth century. And Madison is not even mentioned in the "Identity politics" article aside from the caption accompanying that image. Bus stop (talk) 12:37, 17 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Original research

The following is all sourced to primary sources, and analyzes and makes claims about those sources that is not supported by the sources themselves.

Class identity politics were first described briefly in an article by L. A. Kauffman, who traced its origins to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization of the civil rights movement in the USA in the early and mid-1960s.[1] Although SNCC invented many of the fundamental practices which currently make up identity politics, and although various black power groups extended them, they apparently found no need to apply a term. Rather, the term emerged when others outside the black freedom movements – particularly, the race- and ethnic-specific women's liberation movements, such as black feminism – began to adopt the practice in the late 1960s. Traces of identity politics can also be found in the early writings of the modern gay liberation movements, such as Dennis Altman's Homosexual: Liberation/Oppression,[2][3] Jeffrey Week's Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present, and Ken Plummer's The Making of the Modern Homosexual.[4]

References

  1. ^ L. A. Kauffman, "The Anti-Politics of Identity", Socialist Review (Oakland, Calif.) 20, no. 1 (January–March 1990), 67–80.
  2. ^ Altman, Dennis (1971). Homosexual: Liberation/Oppression. Australia.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  3. ^ Weeks, Jeffrey (1977). Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present. London: Quartet.
  4. ^ Plummer, Ken (1981). The Making of the Modern Homosexual. London: Hutchinson.

-- Jytdog (talk) 13:13, 17 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Trump won White Nationalists

Article states "Donald Trump, who won the support of prominent white supremacists such as David Duke and Richard B. Spencer (which Trump disavowed.)"

This implies that Trump sought the endorsement of White Nationalists when there is no documentation of such because he never did. This should be changed to "Donald Trump, who got the support of prominent white supremacists such as...', otherwise Wikipedia is engaging in hysterical political presumption and not simply reporting a topic. Trump might be a rude curmudgeon, but there is clearly no documented claim by him to support White Nationalism and it further discredits the objectivity of this site to state he sought endorsement from these irrational people. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.72.156.116 (talk) 10:21, 15 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I agree. While I am no fan of Trump it is wrong to imply something that is not proven. As such and given no contrary viewpoint stated thus far, consensus has been established and I will make an edit to the effect suggested. Mrspaceowl (talk) 20:41, 10 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Orphaned references in Identity politics

I check pages listed in Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of Identity politics's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.

Reference named "auto1":

I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 23:55, 19 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Updating the critiques of identity politics

The content on this page summarizing and characterizing the criticisms of identity politics was narrow and academic and needed updating with the current and latest criticisms found in mainstream political criticism and reporting following the 2016 election cycle. My additions are aimed at doing that, with citation to the work of credible contemporary political commentators.

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