Bill Schubart: Identity politics

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Bill Schubart, a regular commentator for Vermont Public Radio and a former board member of the Vermont Journalism Trust, the umbrella organization for VTDigger.org. This piece was first aired on VPR.
I’ve recently learned I’m a “privileged, cisgendered, white male.”
This feels somewhat alien to me still — but it’s new so I’m willing to try it on and figure out what it means in today’s definitional taxonomy