[lbo-talk] Re: Sexuality Under Seige, or What Else is New?

Dennis Redmond dredmond at efn.org
Sun Aug 1 17:35:24 PDT 2004


Nathan Newman wrote:


> If this is how you treat someone who agrees with you 100% on what the
> policy should be, how do you expect to create alliances with people who
> actually disagree with you, but might be willing to build coalitions based
> on mutual respect and coalition building.

The problem is that you're assuming what needs to be established in the first place - this "mutual respect" can't be done on the basis of tokenization, closetization, or any other form of marginalization, conscious or unconscious. Alliance politics doesn't contradict identity-politics; both are needed for change to happen.

-- DRR



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