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'The landlords came the peasant trials to the sacrifice of man, through the past in black and white dark deeds to the present once again, in the name of capital, establishment, improvers its a name, the hidden truth, the hidden lies that once nailed you to the pain' - not identity politics its an identity that can name Neo liberalism in 80's at moment Thatcher introduced it that knows 'candles of the enlightenment once lit they say don't burn, turned the darkest room of suffering into a greater state of pain' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHsXNIbJmWU

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Thing about identity politics that nobody mentions is its shallowness of identity. It can only be used for victim status because nothing else in it that you have with 'real' identity. It doesn't connect you if your ancestors are slaves instead of people with their own culture taken as slaves doesn't tell you how you're connected to the land or the people or how what you do is connected, when women of Glasgow chased the rent collectors with their pots and frying pans that was a gathering of the clans just like Jacobite rebellion was, Bannock burn or Labour going from weighing its vote to only 1 MP in Scotland in 2015. No 'real' identities in USA, why nobody is native and American or black and American at the place where cultures should meet there's only consumerism and if you've got consumerism where an identity should be how do you join together as one clan?

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