Steve Inskeep Quotes About Identity

Quotes about: Identity

• You do have this circumstance in Karachi that because people know things are changing, the stakes are higher. Everyone is thinking, "My home is threatened, my job is threatened, my identity is threatened, my world is threatened." And that creates a very particular sort of climate, that is linked.

  Steve Inskeep

  Home, Thinking, People

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

• [Mark] Lilla sees a deeper problem, and he wrote an article in The New York Times denouncing identity liberalism.He says liberals have appealed to African-Americans or women or the LGBT community but failed to craft a strong, broad national message. He's not the only person saying this. Long before the votes were cast, Bernie Sanders argued the Democrats lost the white working class by not speaking broadly to the country.

  Steve Inskeep

  Country, Strong, New York

  Source: www.npr.org

• Identity liberalism, as I understand it, is expressive rather than persuasive.

  Steve Inskeep

  Identity, Persuasive, Liberalism

  Source: www.npr.org

• [Identity liberalism] is about recognition and self-definition. It's narcissistic. It's isolating. It looks within. And it also makes two contradictory claims on people.

  Steve Inskeep

  Self, Two, People

  Source: www.npr.org

• [Identity liberalism] says, on the one hand, you can never understand me because you are not exactly the kind of person I've defined myself to be. And on the other hand, you must recognize me and feel for me. Well, if you're so different that I'm not able to get into your head and I'm not able to experience or sympathize with what you experience, why should I care?

  Steve Inskeep

  Hands, Identity, Different

  Source: www.npr.org

• Is that really the issue [of bathrooms and gender] we want to be pushing leading up to a momentous election like this one? It's that shortsightedness that comes from identity politics.

  Steve Inskeep

  Identity Politics, Issues, Want

  Source: www.npr.org

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