As I ' ve said before Black Magic <| sep |> Take a wild guess , kiddo . <| sep |> uSquints 145 LOVE YOU BRO ! ! YOU ARE BASED ! MAGA ! MRGA ! <| sep |> Danault and Mitchell have 5 goals apiece on our 4 th , with a rotating 3 rd man , they ' ve been dynamite ! <| sep |> Ewww , some people actually work hard at their weirdness . <| sep |> I think the issue isn ' t just that it can be taken to an extreme , but that it ultimately leads to the extreme if you equate identity politics with civil rights . Pursuing civil rights for oppressed peoples is , unarguably , a good thing . It is the right thing to do . If you think that engaging in identity politics is not just useful , but the right thing to do i . e . the extreme examples in uMedian ' s post , women need to stick together , etc . then you get led further and further down the rabbit hole . Because , civil rights , ultimately has a goal to gain a specific rights for a group of people . Identity politics does not have a goal , because it is a political strategy , not a movement . Identity politics is useful for bringing people of a common identity together to mobilize for a cause which affects them in particular . However , it stops being useful when it is mistaken for the movement itself .