Identity politics is one of the great challenges of our time. It longs for justice, but the justice it achieves is only accomplished by group scapegoating. Identity politics borrows from the Christian idea that "the sins of the world are taken away" by a scapegoat, but instead of a divine scapegoat--Christ--identity politics offers up a mortal scapegoat--the white heterosexual male. (Once he is humiliated and purged, another group will be chosen as the necessary scapegoat). Politics cannot return to its task of building a common world together as long as identity politics declares that the task of politics is to repudiate the impure and elevate the innocents.

Dr. Joshua Mitchell, Professor of Political Theory, Georgetown University

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