When Cruelty Actually is the Point | The American Conservative
Progressives have spent years carefully constructing identity politics hierarchies that prioritize the black and trans experiences over those of mere cisgendered whites. These pecking orders are meant to do more than just structure your privilege; they re supposed to provide you with a worldview on the basis of your identity. Yet now an African American has achieved prominence as a conservative? And a transwoman is running for governor as a Republican against the whitest liberal that even San Francisco could muster up? Identity politics has just hit a blue screen of death. What to do? In the case of Jenner, it has meant falling back onto ideas of class in order to write the candidate off; in the case of Scott, it has meant spewing and fuming like the very bigots the left claims to oppose.