identity politician en · NOUN
Meanings
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An advocate of or participant in identity politics.
There are those who contest the very idea of identity politics or try to reduce it to a minimum. They would prefer that rights be derived wholly from function and reason. Then, there are those who like some identities but not others. Ranged against them, as it were, are the identity politicians, who insist that all problems are derived from identity and should be solved by the criteria of identity.
2000, George Schöpflin, Nations, Identity, Power: The New Politics of Europe, page 9:You can think of Bailey as an identity politician's worst nightmare. Bailey is attacking the by-now accepted scientific view that whom you love and who you identify yourself to be are not the same issue.
2007, Kevin G. Barnhurst, Media Q: Media/queered: Visibility and Its Discontents, page 85:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
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| identity politicians | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Relateds
identitarian politics · identity politics
Translations (8)
de Identitätspolitiker (identity politician) · nb identitetspolitiker (identity politician) · sv identitetspolitiker (identity politician) · fi identiteettipoliitikko (identity politician) · de Identitätspolitikerin (identity politician) · cmn 身份政治擁護者 /身份政治拥护者 (identity politician) · nn identitetspolitikar (identity politician) · da identitetspolitiker (identity politician)