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identity politician

identity politician noun: an advocate of or participant in identity politics.

Noun

identity politician (plural identity politicians)

  1. 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...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 of identity politician

pluralidentity politicians

Questions about identity politician

What does identity politician mean?
Identity politician means an advocate of or participant in identity politics.
What part of speech is identity politician?
Identity politician is a noun.
What is the plural of identity politician?
The plural of identity politician is identity politicians.

Words near identity politician in the dictionary

  1. identity of indiscernibles
  2. identity parade
  3. identity parades
  4. identity police
  5. identity policing
  6. identity politician
  7. identity politicians
  8. identity politics
  9. identity properties
  10. identity property
  11. identity provider

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