I feel like the word means so many different things now idk what to feel. Conservatives/exclusionary racists use it to mean queer people existing or black people in white spaces and liberals/assmiliationist racists use it to say black people know what’s best for black people as long as they capitulate to US hegemony. Obv the right answer is black people acting in their true collective interest and not for the white supremacist US hegemony know what’s best for black people and I feel like this could work as a positive definition for identity politics especially to be used against the chauvinists that reject self-determination using Marxist arguments like the Russian chauvinists of the USSR or the American patriotic socialist position of today. Honestly though we should probably just throw it all out and start using new words at this point because communicating with a word there are so many interpretations of is unnecessarily difficult.
I feel like the word means so many different things now idk what to feel. Conservatives/exclusionary racists use it to mean queer people existing or black people in white spaces and liberals/assmiliationist racists use it to say black people know what’s best for black people as long as they capitulate to US hegemony. Obv the right answer is black people acting in their true collective interest and not for the white supremacist US hegemony know what’s best for black people and I feel like this could work as a positive definition for identity politics especially to be used against the chauvinists that reject self-determination using Marxist arguments like the Russian chauvinists of the USSR or the American patriotic socialist position of today. Honestly though we should probably just throw it all out and start using new words at this point because communicating with a word there are so many interpretations of is unnecessarily difficult.