No political outcome is guaranteed by any identity position

Evidence

Why is it difficult? It has no guarantees. Because identifications change and shift, they can be worked on by political and economic forces outside of us, and they can be articulated in different ways. There is absolutely no political guarantee already inscribed in an identity. There is no reason on God’s earth why the film is good because a black person made it. There is absolutely no guarantee that all the politics will be right because a woman does it. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 255

Categorization

• XREF: Parallels Althusser’s overdetermination — identity does not mechanistically produce politics without articulation to other forces. — connects to: Political positions are valid only for their conjunctural moment, not forever.; Identity is perpetually in formation, never a completed essence. — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 203; Political identities are always historically constructed and positional, never fixed (+6 more)
• QUESTION: Implication for Islamophobia critique: a Muslim-produced text carries no automatic political correctness — how does this complicate naive readings?
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2: Identity…, 255

Broader Connections

• Identity is a positional political choice, not an ascribed primordial given #qualifies (0.85)
• Ideological elements like racism and nationalism have no necessary class belonging #corroborates (0.85)
• Identity politics freezes identity in false shapes for political convenience. #complicates (0.80)
• Capitalism has no necessary correspondence with any particular political or legal form #corroborates (0.80)
• Identity can only be understood through difference, never self-sameness #expands (0.80) — Stuart Hall, Essential Essays, Volume 2, 1189
• Capitalism has no necessary correspondence with parliamentary democracy #corroborates (0.80)