Identity Politics and Human Rights

Another excellent essay by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsey of Areo magazine:
 https://areomagazine.com/2018/09/25/identity-politics-does-not-continue-the-work-of-the-civil-rights-movements/ 
There's just one point I would add: the left wing of "universal liberalism" -- the legacy of the Enlightenment -- includes more than traditional liberals. It also includes traditional socialists. After all, the communist maxim, "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need," assumes implicitly that everyone has individual abilities and individual needs that aren't reducible to their membership in a demographic group(s). 
In fact, the physicist Alan Sokal, who famously hoaxed the postmodernists on whose ideas identity politics are based, described himself to NPR as "an old-fashioned rational leftist" -- a phrase I loved as soon as heard it.