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identity pol: "people organize and advocate based on shared demographic characteristics"

What in this post is possibly identity politics? It sounds like personal ethics to me. I don't appreciate identity politics, and when you muddy the term with having a spine and anything you don't like you make it harder to debate the actual problems the term is normally associated with.

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The person youre replying to also employed the term TDS in recent comments, which I believe refers to Trump Devotion Syndrome.

Muddying waters and making debate impossible are his goals. He hoped to antagonize everyone with his trigger word.

TDS, like BDS (ODS never really caught on), is typically known to be <President's Name> Derangement Syndrome, targeted at people who the commenter thinks to be unreasonably upset about the politician in question.

I think you're ascribing too much thought and reason to the people that use that phrase. If anything, its a signal to their ingroup that they are keeping the faith, and proving that they are sufficiently devoted.

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