“You may have picked up that everybody is obsessed with Identity these days. You may have picked up that the Critical Social Justice movement has something to do with everybody being obsessed with Identity these days. That's because Critical Social Justice is completely obsessed with Identity, and talks about it all the time. ...
I run the Social Justice encyclopedia "Translations from the Wokish" to help you understand how they use terms, like "Identity" in ways that you may not expect.
So, identity: in critical Social Justice theory, there is no individual. Your identity is not who You are, it's which groups you belong to. There's no individual identity.”
James Lindsay "Identity: A translation from the Wokish"
“You're part of a collective, or a tribe, based on your immutable characteristics. Maybe it's your race, your ethnicity, maybe it's your gender, maybe it's your sexuality. That's who you actually are. And they believe, they truly believe, that they've theorised identity correctly. And they understand identity in terms of the power dynamics of society - which is why you could call the critical social justice movement Identity Marxism, as a matter of fact.
And, if you, as a member of that group, don't act or believe in the way that that identity group is theorised to experience the world, if you don't "speak into theory" as a member of your identity, then you are an inauthentic representative of that identity group.
So you aren't "you." They take the traits that would make you You, and obliterate them. And tell you that you are only truly who you are if you accurately represent (according to them) the way that your identity group (that they've placed you into) thinks acts and believes, and how it relates (most importantly) to "systemic power", which they believe is the organising principle of society.
So you become a representative of identity groups according to how Critical Social Justice activists think about identity groups, not who you are.
That's the entire story. I was going to say "most important" - that's the entire story of your identity in Critical Social Justice. “