Some of my point here is that identity politics are too often conflated with serious ideology and it makes people naive until they’re standing in the line of fire being called a slur by the people who enforce the “progress” that is the language of identity. This is not about geopolitics it’s about the media’s relationship to identity politics. There’s a larger conversation about the policing of language as a two way trauma response that makes everyone a little fascist that should also be had