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The Article outlines the biggest issue we often have in the era of identity politics, a group of people belonging to a group claiming they speak for the whole group.
Democrats' big miscalculation: Conservative women like me won't abandon Brett Kavanaugh
NOW does't speak for all Women, it speaks for its members and people who believe the same things NOW does, NAACP doesn't speak for all black people, it speaks for it's members and people who believe the same thing NAACP does.
It even goes into government, when Cuomo says he "speaks for all New Yorkers". While that may be true when it comes to what the government does, it does NOT hold true when it comes to political opinions.
Democrats' big miscalculation: Conservative women like me won't abandon Brett Kavanaugh
We are furious at the people purporting to speak for women, furious that what should have been an ordinary parsing of evidence (what little there is after 36 years) was turned into a Kabuki theater campaign ad for the Democratic Party, stressing their trope that the GOP is conducting a so-called war on women.
I know I loathe identity politics. Maybe that's because of the way I was raised, by a scientist father who took the family along while he did field work for months at a time on the Navajo reservation and in a Mayan village on the Yucatan Peninsula. I moved light years beyond the politics of sex and race years ago, if I ever thought in terms of such crude categories.
NOW does't speak for all Women, it speaks for its members and people who believe the same things NOW does, NAACP doesn't speak for all black people, it speaks for it's members and people who believe the same thing NAACP does.
It even goes into government, when Cuomo says he "speaks for all New Yorkers". While that may be true when it comes to what the government does, it does NOT hold true when it comes to political opinions.