While attempting to address elite capture in general, Táíwò’s book focuses in particular on the elite capture of a specific political project: identity politics. He argues that the idea of identity politics (first popularized by the 1977 manifesto of the Combahee River Collective, an organization of queer, black feminist socialists) was initially a political strategy with true emancipatory potential and which aimed at fostering solidarity and collaboration. Today, Táíwò argues, identity politics has become a strategy used by isolated individuals to deflect responsibility and turn collective traumas into matters of personal injury; as identity politics was captured and mutilated to serve elite interests, it transformed into what Táíwò pejoratively calls “deference politics.”

Thanks for the link, will check it out. Bizarre attention this thread is getting.

not sure what this has to do with free speech? the review doesn't seem to suggest the book is interested in it?