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There's a very common notion in class-first left-wing circles that identity politics sharply ticked up right after Occupy Wall Street in order to keep people divided and away from actually threatening things (the stronger version of this is that it was deliberately coordinated)
Has anyone run into an actual attempt to prove or disprove this with data? (Besides that one chart of NYT's mentions of 'isms' going up)
It’s an interesting idea, though I haven’t seen any.
I’d second @johnfabian in doubting polls or Google Trends. At best they’re only going to suggest a symptom.
Maybe you could try to measure date of adoption of idpol party planks. I.e. flag each point in these. Local groups would be better for a large sample size. But this is still basically a word-frequency study.
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