Can you separate ‘identity politics’ from diversity?

I got an email the other day from a reader who claimed I'm doing CIO.com's readers a great disservice by focusing my diversity and inclusion coverage on "identity politics" instead of emphasizing diversity of thought. Identity politics only creates problems, while cognitive diversity solves them, according to this reader.What are "identity politics"? It's the tendency of people from different religious, ethnic, racial and/or social backgrounds to form political alliances to advance issues impor