Identity Crisis: Everything's Made Up and the Points Don't Matter

In Episode 15, we discuss the third component of the Nexus, identitarianism. What do we mean by identitarianism and what are some of its characteristics? How do identitarian arguments work, and how do identitarian premises influence thought on the Left? Finally, we touch on alternative ways of addressing some of the difficult questions that identitarianism seeks to answer.Part of the Identity Crisis series.Show NotesRacecraft by Karen E. Fields and Barbara J. FieldsAdolph Reed Jr's DSA Talk Cancellation'Disparity Ideology, Coronavirus, and the Danger of the Return of Racial Medicine' by Adolph Reed Jr'LGBTQ+ People Face Starkly Higher Covid Risk', by Maanvi Singh in the Guardian'The Trouble with Disparity' by Walter Benn Michaels & Adolph Reed JrThe Body Keeps the Score, by Bessel Van der KolkACE Scores (Wikipedia)'What Black Life Actually Looks Like', by Cedric Johnson'The Cosmopolitan Socialism of Michael Brooks', by Ben BurgisIntersectionality (Wikipedia)Capitalist Realism by Mark FisherHorrifying Woke CIA AdMartin Luther King Quote in 'Why Liberals Make Everything About Race With Touré Reed' from The Jacobin Show'Iqaluit city councillor Malaiya Lucassie apologizes for BLM remarks''The Fight to Organize Amazon Is Just Getting Started' by Alex N PressFollow Fucking Cancelled on Instagram.Find merch in our shop.ClementineMorrigan.comJayLesoleil.comTheme song by ST x LIAM.Mixing and editing by Charlotte Dora. This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.fuckingcancelled.com/subscribe

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Fucking Cancelled is a podcast with three aims. First, we analyze and critique a phenomenon on the left that we call the nexus: a synthesis of identitarianism, social media, and cancel culture. Second, we offer emotional, spiritual, and ethical insights into the process of rejecting and exiting the nexus. Third, we move toward a different vision for the left grounded in solidarity, freedom, and responsibility. We are leftists who have spent many years inside the nexus. We have been too afraid to critique it and we have suffered the consequences of critiquing it. We know all too well the destructive impact the nexus has on our communities, our movements, our spiritual, emotional, and mental health, and our capacity to be responsible, ethical actors. We are also recovering addicts who live our lives by a set of spiritual and ethical principles which are starkly at odds with the rules of the nexus. We offer these principles as a guiding light toward a different left. Fucking Cancelled is a podcast for anyone who feels stifled or trapped by the authoritarian, punishing culture that dominates the left. It’s a podcast for anyone who is too afraid to say what they really think. It’s a podcast for people who have been cancelled, who are afraid of getting cancelled, or who have taken part in the cancellation of others and wondered if it was right. Fucking Cancelled is a podcast for leftists who dream of a left grounded in solidarity, freedom, and responsibility, rather than coercion, authoritarianism, and punishment. www.fuckingcancelled.com