Monstrous Regiment

Why do disagreements between leftists become so adversarial so quickly?
First example: the protest which led to Bitch being disinvited from the Boston Dyke March. Even more recently: in the town where i live, which has a large Armenian-American population, there was an argument over the Anti-Defamation League’s rejection of the Armenian Genocide, which resulted [...]

I’ve written a bit in the last few months about affinity politics and how it differs from identity politics.  This morning i was thinking about the language we use and how it affects the way we think about identity, affinity, and “who” or “what” people are.
Take the term “LGBTIQQ:” Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, Questioning, [...]