Macey wrote: “The issue is not whether or not I am supporting Obama or McCain. The issue is that people make decisions based on racial and gender biases and party affiliation and misinformation.”
Here’s the problem with trying to talk to an identity-politics-jock. If you oppose their arguments or candidates, it can only because you are prejudiced against one of their identity groups–there are no other issues. You oppose tax cuts, you obviously favor the rich over the poor: you want free trade, you obviously favor management over labor; you oppose Obama, it must be because of his identity as a black. There are no issues that do not reduce to identity conflicts in identity politics. Therefore, for an identity-politics jock like Macey, as an opponent you arrive at the debate already defined as a racist, sexist, fat capitalist, whatever, when, ironically, identity politics is purely about racism, sexism, group identity cliches, etc.
