The term identity politics may have been used in political discourse since at least the 1970s.[19] The first known written appearance of the term is found in the April 1977 statement of the Black feminist socialist group, Combahee River Collective, which was originally printed in 1979’s Capitalist Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism,[22] later in Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, edited by Barbara Smith, a founding member of the Collective,[23] who have been credited with coining the term.[24][25]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics#History
But it didn’t become a big thing till the last decade, IE when we all got on social media.
A hundred genders. New pronouns. This is a new thing.
Do you mean gender identity? That’s not the same thing as identity politics.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_politics
Nope, I mean identity politics. IE popular concern for the details and ramifications of identity, so great that it rises into the political realm.
Tell me that you didn’t notice.
hey look the monkeys are upvoting you
There has always been hundreds of genders, and it’s always been a political lynch pin: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/lgbtq-institute-in-germany-was-burned-down-by-nazis