White Men's Identity Politics

I missed this tweet when it happened, but from the tone and content it seems plausible that it was offered in the context of the long-standing disagreement over whether identity politics deserves derision or celebration:  

Not (entirely) without reason, the side deriding identity politics is often observed to consist of primarily white people, especially white men, and the side defending the approach is remarked to consist of mostly people of color.  Thus, it seems that this tweet might have been meant to defend identity politics to those who mostly disparage it, and even raise the possibility of self-interested hypocrisy in doing so.

The tweet is certainly correct, but so what?  I and most (all?) of the left-of-center white guys opposing identity politics now opposed Bush, didn’t we?

And I’m a white guy, so that was supposedly identity politics in my interest/on my behalf.  I rejected it then, and in fact recall specifically ridiculing how stupid and irrelevant it was to prefer a candidate for such a reason.  As soon as I started learning phil, I started calling it (akin to) “ad hominem”. 

I opposed it then because it’s false and therefore harmful, and oppose it now too.  What that really in defense of identity politics, to remind white guys decrying it of when it might have worked for them?  All the lefty guys decrying it opposed Bush too, and therefore likely were appalled by the “have a beer with” identity politics working in his favor.