The problem with a left politics that has identity at its center is that it necessarily emphasizes what divides people from each other.
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Put simply, it inevitably results in multiple layers of inclusion & exclusion between different groups based on inviolable categories.
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Take, eg, how the idea of being an "ally" is highly conditional in left discourse. It has rigid boundaries that are very carefully policed.
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Trouble is, a successful political movement needs to emphasize what binds people together, not what separates them (e.g., the sisterhood).
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If political categories become highly atomized, you have no basis upon which to build a successful movement. You don't have enough people.
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Intersectionality creates a hierarchy of oppression - even if that's not its intention - that emphasizes difference. It's not going to work.
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Yes! I've argued it rendered feminism incoherent & disempowering of women until gender equality cld only be sought outside it
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