[bitemealienboi]

The problem with race abolitionism is that it removes the language for discussing racial issues and hides these issues where they cant be addressed. Its essentially the equivalent of saying "All Lives Matter". It attempts to dismiss and ignore the problems that wont go away even if ignored.

It would be nice to live in a world where racial discrimination and issues dont exist and skin colour is as meaningless and superficial as eye colour or the colour of your clothes. And perhaps, someday, this may be the case.

But at the end of the day, racial problems still exists. Racial discrimination still exists. People are still being treated differently by individuals and systems based on their physical features and the colour of their skin. Cops see and treat black people differently, so do doctors and judges and juries and home sellers and bankers and hotel clerks. And that causes real effects and impediments to people of colour that needs to be addressed first.

Identity politics is not saying these people are different. Identity politics is saying that society sees these people as different, and that its a problem that needs to be addressed