On this we both agree and disagree. Society does have a set of complex dynamics that act on the individual and group level. Each group, and each person within that group expeirences a certain level of privilege. You're bang on when you say that we live in a racist culture. But we also live in a classist culture. An ableist culture. A sexist culture. A aestheticist culture. A heightest culture.

I'm not disputing the problem. I'm disputing the answer being presented. Identity politics creates an oppression olympics. Each group needs to demonstrate to all other groups why they are bottom of the intersectionality - and so you have competing groups that stymie progress for each other. See Lesbians vs Trans Men. Black men vs White women. BIPOC middle class vs White working class.

For the most part these do little more than generate outrage on social media, but the last one I've listed is problematic. If you have a selection of economically well off people insisting they are far less privileged than white people in abject poverty (and they may be right about this in very particular circumstances to do with racial privilege) then they are going to force the white working class to the political right. It isn't a difficult argument to overturn when you consider the intersectional nature of privilege.

I'm not saying we shouldn't talk about these things, I'm saying we must be aware of the law of unintended consequences. This might include a political shift to the right (which will hit very poor white people and very poor BIPOC the hardest) - it might also create a raft of anxiety in which impressionable young people see the world as devoid of opportunity and can attribute every single aspect of their existence to living under oppression. This would be very bad on a psychological level too.

Your point about advantages and disadvantages is well made and this really needs to be understood on an individual level not a group level. Nothing about identity politics involves exploring your individual strengths and weaknesses. It's always about which socialogical group you belong in and how that allows you to operate in society. What advantages or disadvantages it bestows. It moves the conversation from psychology (and the process of self actualisation) towards sociology (and half assed Marxism). Identity politics has, and will continue, to split the ideological left into a pissing contest where the only real winners are the political right.