Yassmin Abdel-Magied recently published a piece in The Guardian Australia lambasting her critics as being merely ‘afraid of a young brown Muslim woman speaking [her] mind’. In it, she employed all the familiar rhetoric of the modern left, claiming that ‘today’s identity politics are about power – but not “real” or “traditional” power… Real power – that which lies in financial resources, the mainstream media and politics – is held by hands similar to those of 50 or 100 years ago: white, male hands.