identity politician

identity politician (plural identity politicians)

1. (politics) An advocate of or participant in identity politics.
   • 2000, George Schöpflin, Nations, Identity, Power: The New Politics of Europe, page 9:

     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.

   • 2007, Kevin G. Barnhurst, Media Q: Media/queered: Visibility and Its Discontents, page 85:

     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.

• identitarian politics
• identity politics