why is it called "gender identity, racial identity" etc

posted 3 years ago

I noticed that they seem to be the politically correct term for liberals and its so strange. What is the ideology at work here? What does “identity” even mean in this context?

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badtakes [he/him]@hexbear.netOP

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3 years ago

just my experience where a lot of institutions who try to be “woke” adopt this kind of language. by ideology I meant the ideology in Marx’s false consciousness sense, where it twists our perception of the world

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