Identity Politics as practised by the Trudeau Liberals is Fraying around the edges or worse

Chris Selley's recent article on this subject relating to the drama surrounding the Indian former Justice Minister in the federal Liberal cabinet raises issues illustrating the dangers of identity politics for both the public, the players and, of course, the Trudeau government in Canada.

See the article at this web page:

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/chris-selley-heres-why-trudeaus-identity-politics-troubles-were-inevitable?video_autoplay=true

My comment on the article follows:

Interesting takes from the gossip front.  Out here in the west, its amusing to watch the fraying and disintegration of identity politics practised by the Trudeau Liberals.  Of course, constantly posing, ignoring substance, celebrating identities instead of merit, character and valid ideas, is destructive and harmful.  But I am getting sick of pundits or phony-pundits who throw around the phrase "wildly disproportionate number of Indigenous defendants and prisoners".   That is identity politics itself.  Jody W-R's father deliberately calls himself an Indian, (instead of the more phony names for Indians, such as the "I am a first nation" term). Indians who did the crimes and are charged or convicted of crimes should be where the courts put them, as happens to ordinary non-Indian offenders.  The problems, as always, are so much more complex than such a stupid phrase can convey, and is as much the fault of Indians as it is of governments and the myriad of phony, greedy academics and bureaucrats feeding like vampires off the problems that are never solved.