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“How people feel is important. But it's not as important as a genocide, ethnic cleansing or ongoing war crimes […] The problem for the left is that, by absorbing so much of liberalism's obsession with subjectivity and the individual, we've made it difficult to argue that there's a hierarchy of harm - and that the material reality outside of our own experience matters more than how we interpret it.”

“Today’s identity politics isn’t so interested in the material injustices of food, jobs, bombs and money. Instead, we find ourselves endlessly debating the terms of the debate. Language, though important, has taken on an absurdly elevated status. We use language to sign signal that we’re enlightened, virtuous and morally pure.l