>  This kind of identity-politics thinking rests on a few assumptions: that a person’s gender, racial, or ethnic identity is the most important thing about them; that we should emphasize not what unites all people but what divides them; that history consists principally of the struggle between oppressor and oppressed; that a member of one group can never really understand the lived experience of someone in another group; and that the supposedly neutral institutions and practices of society—things like free speech, academic standards, and the justice system—are really just tools the dominant groups use to maintain their hegemony.


Yet another way the conservative brain is messed up.  Their "we don't see people by their differences" is really a conformity obsession.  In a vacuum, their insistence that "everyone is fundamentally the same..." sounds so nice, but inevitably that thought concludes with "so any differences you have must be a flaw".