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Another term for this is tokenization. The premise being that an individual of X background is surely the authority on all topics related to X so you must believe them. This is, by necessity, inconstantly applied, because actual humans disagree with each other and know vastly different amounts about topics and have differing interests and backgrounds despite all being X.
Liberals use it constantly to give their bad ideas weight, as they can't argue them on merit. Discussing a country and imperialism? Let's bring in the gusano that knows jack shit but is very condescending. Want to go in a different direction in a strategy discussion? Sorry, John is Vietnamese (his grandparents immigrated from Vietnam) and says China is bad. There's often a racist tone to it that they don't recognize.
It drives me insane
Yeah it's disruptive and annoying. You've actually gotta rid organizing spaces of it in its entirety because otherwise libs will take them over using these bad faith tactics.