Really sweaty hands <| sep |> I wasn ' t referring to that specific example . I was speaking to your more general statement . At its core , identity politics is a logical fallacy in that it is an assertion to authority based on your irrelevant personal characteristics . What I was getting at is that sometimes those personal characteristics aren ' t always irrelevant , but they are still filed away as identity politics . As I mentioned in my previous reply . I think it isn ' t necessarily fallacious to assert that you are more likely to be experienced in the matters of police brutality because you are black and grew up in the inner city . But people might still dismiss that as just identity politics . <| sep |> wow they didnt get it . im shocked