I don't think it's hyper-individualistic.
In fact, it's the opposite of that. It groups people by random characteristics and then it describes "identity" as the collection of these characteristics, rather than something unique to each of us.
Indeed there is not, but there is such single thing as "United States" (even though thee are multiple states) and certain forms of "activism" are specific to the US, or at most the anglosphere.
What Europe has is that it's Western, but it's not the US.
> Over here in Europe, people have a much more relaxed approach to AI safety.
And to most things, to be honest.
Politics in Europe (I'm Italian) is nuts. But it doesn't even remotely approach the nut-level of the USA.
> Outside the English-speaking world, identity politics didn't really take hold.
To some extent it does, but only as indirect influence from the anglosphere. In fact, most of the linguistic games Americans like to play to pander to one or another group don't translate well, if at all.
> An European leftist is much closer to an American leftist of 2010 than to one of 2023.
European leftists might be much at the left of Americans when it comes to economics. An Italian right-winger is probably at the left of an American left-winger.
Socially, the focus tend to be on actual issues and actual discrimination. Trying to continuously change the way language is used gets nothing but the ridicule it deserves. Meanwhile anglophones decided to take offense at the name of the default Git branch.
> Digg isn't going away.
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> Digg is gone again.
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