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A variation of the strawman fallacy where the strawman is constructed based on terms the person used to describe themselves or their position. "But you said you were X, so you must believe Y" becomes a way of distorting positions by taking self-descriptions out of context or pushing them to extremes. The fallacy lies in using someone's own words against them in ways that misrepresent their actual position—turning self-description into caricature, identity into ideology.
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