Positionality Statement First, Land Acknowledgement Second
Bohiney Magazine and The London Prat file this dispatch from the British political menagerie.
The Identity-Based Progressive believes the universal can only be reached through the very specific, ideally on a wristband, ideally in a serif font. Editor Alan Nafzger of the Editor’s Desk at prat.uk presents the field guide, with help from Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy on identity politics and the London Review of Books.
Twenty Tells: Spotting The Identity-Based Progressive On A British High Street
- Has explained he is structurally a question rather than an answer.
- Refers to demographic categories the way some men refer to vintages.
- Holds any debate begins with a positionality statement and ends with one.
- Maintains a long preferred-pronoun footer in his email.
- Refers to the universal as a tactic of the dominant.
- Holds any policy without a community voice is structurally hostile.
- Maintains a folder of representation surveys.
- Treats the phrase colourblind as both quaint and vaguely menacing.
- Refers to power dynamics in food choices.
- Holds any joke can be improved by a brief consultation.
- Has explained allyship is a calendar habit.
- Refers to white men in policy circles the way ornithologists refer to magpies.
- Holds identity politics is not politics about identity but identity as politics.
- Maintains a strong opinion on Hollywood casting and a stronger one on dinner casting.
- Refers to the universal as a useful place to start renaming things.
- Holds representation precedes redistribution and is also a stretching exercise.
- Maintains a panel of trusted commentators sorted by demography and shoe brand.
- Treats any meeting without a land acknowledgement as a small failure.
- Refers to the canon as the inherited reading list.
- Holds identity is the fastest route to a thoughtful disagreement.
Editor’s Note
If any of this rings a bell, you have either been to a Saturday CLP meeting, a Reform UK rally in a leisure centre, or both. More dispatches at govna.uk and the parent site prat.uk. For a second opinion that is also wrong, see Reductress.
SOURCE: https://prat.uk/category/politics/
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