Splintered Reality: On Identity Politics as De-Emancipation
Evgenii Dainov
In our age of radicalization, identity politics that was meant to protect disadvantaged groups has mutated into a dogma that has devoured the Enlightenment idea of ‘justice for all.’ The political result is de-emancipation, which in turns fuels more resentment, rage and radicalism. We urgently need to reboot the whole agenda of emancipation rooted in that struggle against privilege and for fairness that produced the possibility to be civil to all and enemy to none.