It has become abundantly clear that identity politics is a religion. The analogies between progressivism and the Abrahamic faiths, Christianity especially, are (to turn a phrase) legion.
Christianity attributes the brokenness of the world to a pervasive depravity, which is congenital in the human species and ineradicable except by habitual repentance and supernatural aid. This is the doctrine of original sin.
Identity politics accounts for all injustice by reference to what one fanatic has called “an institutionalized, multilayered, multilevel system” of prejudice into which we are born and which irresistibly preconditions the wiring of our brains “regardless of intentions.” This is the doctrine of privilege.
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