"This isn't about right and wrong, it's about winning and losing."

[The Sum of Awe]

"Identity politics" is nothing more than a new term for the way we've always done things. Like how even the ancient Greeks and Romans who emphasised the identities revolving around free citizen/men, slaves, women, laborers, and others. India's rigid caste system is highly identity-driven. And all our tribal ancestors identified strongly with their tribe with a great deal of them would have been hostile towards the members of other tribes. Amd there have probably been none more attached to identity politics than lords, nobles, chieftains and kings of old (and today) who identify their legitimacy and descent from a god.

I've always interpreted identity politics to mean that people will side with a stereotypical identity of a 'left' or 'right' side of a political spectrum. Based on their religion (some Christians may heavily identify with strict conservativism in all aspects), race (some blacks may heavily identify with strict liberalism in all aspects), social culture, economic status, etc.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I've always interpreted identity politics to mean that people will side with a stereotypical identity of a 'left' or 'right' side of a political spectrum. Based on their religion (some Christians may heavily identify with strict conservativism in all aspects), race (some blacks may heavily identify with strict liberalism in all aspects), social culture, economic status, etc.

I've always seen as a tool of the Right to try to muddy the waters and do abit of revisionist history while they're at it.