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Identity Politics Denounced as ‘Deeply Felt Irrationalism’

In a searing new interview, bestselling author and culture warrior Mary Eberstadt has unmasked today’s identity politics as an intellectually bankrupt movement born out of the breakdown of the family and a rejection of rational discourse.

The trend of identity politics is marked by its resistance to the free exchange of ideas, preferring name-calling, insult and violent protest to logical argumentation, Eberstadt laments, since it is built around a core of “emotionalism and unreason.”

In the end, identity politics is really “deeply felt irrationalism,” she said in her Nov. 20 interview with Catholic News Agency.

A senior fellow of the Faith & Reason Institute, Eberstadt builds on Columbia University professor Mark Lilla’s groundbreaking work, The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics, in which the author decried the implosion of the Democratic Party and liberalism itself, brought on by a growing disconnect from middle America and enthrallment to identity politics.

As Breitbart News reported last August, Lilla considers liberalism to be “a creed professed mainly by educated urban elites cut off from the rest of the country who see the issues of the day principally through the lens of identities.”

For liberals, “Americans” have ceased to exist and have been replaced with “women, Hispanics, ‘ethnic Americans,’ the LGBT community, Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.”

full story at http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/22/identity-politics-denounced-as-deeply-felt-irrationalism/

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