QUESTION ASKED: Are YouTube music reaction videos a rejection of identity politics?

Personally, I think what these black content creators are doing speaks to the fundamental idea that people are individuals first and not racial or cultural identities. That idea has fallen very much out of fashion with people on the woke left who have embraced a kind of identity politics which says almost the opposite, i.e. racial and cultural identity are primary. But what’s happening on YouTube shows the opposite idea is still out there in the broader culture, shaping things and bring people together in spite of their superficial differences.

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Earlier: “Could we maybe just accept that identity politics isn’t an effective political strategy? And could Democrats just stop with it, like now?”