NYT: ‘Our guest host Christine Rosen sits down with Catherine Liu, a left-wing cultural critic and the author of “Traumatized: The New Politics of Public Suffering.” Liu explains why Democratic elites are still invested in culture wars and are focusing on what she calls “trauma politics.”’

And: ‘It [identity politics] was an attempt to try to make a moral language out of a secular drive to create a more just society. So if we created this category about victimization and social inequity, we could maybe — and I’m saying “we” from the liberal-left point of view — peel some of the right wing or the conservatives or the religious people over to our side. In the end, it became like a snowball. It just went out of control, partially because it was so successful at framing issues from the top down.’

Trauma politics. Redistribution of power? No, redistribution of trauma.

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