Glenn Greenwald has an excellent Twitter thread on how the “centrists” use identity politics as a cover:
He writes:
Contempt for it on the merits aside, one has to acknowledge the propagandistic genius of exploiting harmless-to-power identity politics as the feel-good cover for perpetuating and even strengthening the neoliberal order and further entrenching corporate and imperial power.
See the full Twitter thread and also a recent post, Identity Politics As A Neoliberal Alternative To A Left, where I mentioned him.