The meme isn’t wrong that identity politics were used in this way, but that has been true way way WAY before Occupy and will stay true in future as the lines of whose sexuality is and isn’t demonized move forward. That has no bearing on the socialist struggle in and of itself though, except that socialists also support equality for all races and genders, because it’s clearly hypocritical not to. the fringe idiots that don’t do so aren’t really socialist but some weird flavor of reactionary using socialism as a smoke screen.

What happened with occupy is that it was ridiculed by the media so that broader society turned away from it, seeing the movement as a powerless fringe. This has also been a pattern before and after OWS and would have happened with or without identity politics existing. Identity politics was and is simply a way for one of the two identical parties in the USA to distinguish itself from their so-called opponents. Let’s shout about gay rights but do every other policy exactly as the people who a<re giving both of us money want it. If identity politics wasn’t something chuds hate, they would need to invent some other issue to do it with.