...which now dominates academia. The postmodern worldview essentially reduces all humanity to two categories, oppressed and oppressors. Because it rejects objectivity and deems everything to be constructs designed to entrench and protect the power of the oppressors, literally everything can (and should be) "deconstructed." Those include not just things like gender, but things that are foundational to modernism--things like science, reason, individualism, etc.

Many who are solidly modernist in their worldview are nevertheless buying into this postmodern identity-based critique because they self-identify as "liberals" and it is being held out as part of the "their" worldview. My take is that it's a tribal identification, rather than a sincere adoption of the postmodern worldview. They are partisans, not ideologues. But that may be changing with the younger generation.

Probably about 80% of people have a modernist worldview, with about half of them being left-leaning and half being right-leaning. But it's the post-moderns and the pre-moderns who make the most noise and get the most attention, with way too many liberal and conservative modernists staying silent because they don't want to seem to be siding with "the other side."