Philip Bump had a column yesterday at the Washington Post titled “The triumph of anti-identity-politics identity politics.” That really does sum up his point pretty well. He’s seeking to claim that the anti-identity politics backlash on the right is just white identity politics. He’s using Robin DiAngelo’s one trick on the whole country as we’ll see in a moment. But first he walks through the last 15 years of political history, framing all of it as an ongoing struggle focused on race.
The emergence of the Black Lives Matter movement a decade ago (in part a function of omnipresent, internet-connected cameras) elevated awareness of one particular disadvantage — police killings — which then expanded into a broader conversation about this systemic racial bias…
…this preceded 2020, the pandemic-disrupted year in which the killing of George Floyd by…
