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I do think you're right, it's all theatre and they don't actually believe what they're saying.
It does make it difficult to take them seriously though.
As a minor party, they need to do something to pull attention to themselves and the issues they care about.
But you are correct, there is a fine balance between getting attention for the issues you care about and becoming a parody of yourself.
Ask yourself the question, would we be discussing this and thinking about these issues if they had been less extreme?
If they had been less extreme, we'd be discussing the message, not the messenger.
You are discussing the messenger, everybody in this thread is discussing the message. That's because you are obsessed with identity politics.