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== Victor David Hanson on identity politics in America ==

== Victor David Hanson on identity politics in America ==

[[Victor Davis Hanson]] wrote in his essay ''The End Of [[Identity politics|Identity Politics]]'':

[[Victor Davis Hanson]] wrote in his essay ''The End Of Identity Politics'':

{{Cquote|What is the future of diversity politics after the 2016 election? Uncertain at best—and for a variety of reasons.

{{Cquote|What is the future of diversity politics after the 2016 election? Uncertain at best—and for a variety of reasons.

Identity politics hinges on perceptible racial or ethnic solidarity, but citizens are increasingly a mixture of various races and do not always categorize themselves as “non-white.” Without DNA badges, it will be increasingly problematic to keep racial pedigrees straight. And sometimes the efforts to do so reach the point of caricature and inauthenticity, through exaggerated accent marks, verbal trills, voice modulations, and nomenclature hyphenation. One reason why diversity activists sound shrill is their fear that homogenization is unrelenting.<ref>[https://www.hoover.org/research/end-identity-politics The End Of Identity Politics] by Victor Davis Hanson, February 17, 2017</ref>}}

Identity politics hinges on perceptible racial or ethnic solidarity, but citizens are increasingly a mixture of various races and do not always categorize themselves as “non-white.” Without DNA badges, it will be increasingly problematic to keep racial pedigrees straight. And sometimes the efforts to do so reach the point of caricature and inauthenticity, through exaggerated accent marks, verbal trills, voice modulations, and nomenclature hyphenation. One reason why diversity activists sound shrill is their fear that homogenization is unrelenting.<ref>[https://www.hoover.org/research/end-identity-politics The End Of Identity Politics] by Victor Davis Hanson, February 17, 2017</ref>}}

==See also==

==See also==