# Identity, politics, and the in-fighting of the left

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**Created:** [November 9, 2019, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/identity-politics-and-the-in-fighting-of-the-left/843199 "2019-11-09T10:42:52Z")\
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> [@DemonTree](#):
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> And if they say that eg less immigration would make their lives better?

Then I’m very skeptical that there are any motives other than racism/xenophobia or an ignorance of how immigration and economics work. What other reasons would someone oppose immigration, in the present US?

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> Or higher tariffs and less free trade?

I’m much less confident in my understanding of this issue, and in any case I wouldn’t attribute one position or the other to racism. In my understanding, tariffs are very dumb policy, but not racist.

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