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It's hard to pin down, but identity politics have spun out from specific minority groups fighting for better representation in their society that used the language of oppression to highlight the differences between them and the ruling group. That got co-opted fairly quickly by, basically, everyone who felt they had a legitimate grievance against society. You see the language used by right-wingers, by liberals, by people who claim to be "trans-ethnic" so they can gain the same kind of voice as legitimately oppressed people. Toss in a bunch academic jargon that was appropriated from the specific context of post-colonial and gender studies, and it not only dilutes the message of people who actually should have a voice, but it creates a pretty vicious backlash and it becomes pretty hard to tell who is dumb and who is not.
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