Felix Salmon: ‘Impartiality or Diversity. Pick One.’

Felix Salmon, writing for Fusion:

Today, the personal is political; identity politics is politics. Political stances aren’t just something that we choose to express when we open our mouths in a certain way; they’re a way of living in the world. If I am a gay Yemeni immigrant, or a black trans woman, or a Muslim trans man who’s a survivor of sexual assault, then to be open and unapologetic about my identity is to be a partisan in the most urgent political debates of the day.

★ Thursday, 2 February 2017