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You Can’t Be Anti-Identity Politics And Pro-Zionism. My Former Colleagues Are Hypocrites.

I dedicated my career to opposing identity politics, but my former allies are now threatening our cause.

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Joseph (Jake) Klein
Jan 16, 2025
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Classical liberalism is under attack. At a level unseen in a century, when communism, fascism, and progressivism were all simultaneously ascendant, both the Left and Right are adopting authoritarian ideologies that would undo the principles that have undergirded free societies since the Enlightenment. These authoritarian ideologies are called “identity politics,” manifesting in the intersectionalism of the woke left as well as the white nationalism and Christian nationalism of the identitarian right.

I’ve dedicated my career to defending classical liberalism and advancing its most pure variant: libertarianism. In service of this, as the intersectional menace arose over the past decade, I did everything I could to combat it. I produced videos with tens of millions of combined views explaining the flaws in this ideology, authored my book Redefining Racism, and took a job as the first full-time employee at an upstart non-profit: the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR). At FAIR,…

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