Meanings
plural identity politicians
- governmentAn advocate of or participant in identity politics.
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 851 more example
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
Translations
Chinese Mandarin 身份政治擁護者 /身份政治拥护者
- 身份政治擁護者 /身份政治拥护者 (shēnfèn zhèngzhì yōnghùzhě)identity politician
Danish identitetspolitiker
- identitetspolitikeridentity politician
Finnish identiteettipoliitikko
- identiteettipoliitikkoidentity politician
German Identitätspolitiker, Identitätspolitikerin
- Identitätspolitikeridentity politician
- Identitätspolitikerinidentity politician
Norwegian Bokmål identitetspolitiker
- identitetspolitikeridentity politician
Swedish identitetspolitiker
- identitetspolitikeridentity politician
Cite this entry
identity politician. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/identity%20politician
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