Yankee Values vs. Identity Politics

[Fuzzy Bear]

I have to have a good laugh at this whole rant about "Yankee values".  Now, I do agree that there is a lot wrong with the state of "Identity Politics" but coming up with a whole new term to describe what to most people should be objectively good things and then labeling it "Yankee values" and arguing that just one brave group of people are responsible for the success of it all?

How is that not Identity Politics, man?

This thread lacks completely in the self-awareness.

There is a desire on the part of the left/progressives to identify a "pure" historical group who has throughout its history sought only good and then latched onto them as being their philosophical antecedents. After a whole lot of white washing of the appropriated group and the assignment of many faults in American history to the "THOSE PEOPLE" and you have this thread.

This.