In college I got a bachelors degree in philosophy. I learned that identity politics or the identity theory was flawed because it grouped people by skin tone, culture, and/or ideology. My favorite professor had a multitude of problems with the identity theory.
In current politics the left seems to ONLY care about identity politics. If I'm wrong here please correct me. Voting on identity is seen by some that I've spoken with to be totally the norm. I've even seen it condemned to vote according to platform or policy. Does this mean that most people want to vote for skin color/religion? How do they rationalize this?
I am genuinely curious why this is and would love to hear view points. Have philosophers you've read been pro identity politics, please catch me up to speed.
If that’s blowing your mind you’ll be shocked to find that it is just a subsection in the goal of critical theory. Research that if you’d like to go down the rabbit hole even further.