The only people who can afford to ignore
or other things derided as “identity politics” are those with enough privileges and advantages afforded to them either a) by their race and/or gender being part of the more advantaged community (i.e. Maxime Bernier is a white male) or get enough bonuses from certain aspects of their identity (i.e. a white, cis, female) that they mostly outweigh the downsides of that one part.
The people who actually have to deal with the marginalisation, the redlining, the racism, the sexism, the non-blatant (unless you know what you’re looking for) systemic discrimination… They never get to forget it.
