I find it so hard not to argue with people when they're labelling others & missing the whole point. I shall do a detached rant.
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No, believing that discrimination on the grounds of race, gender, sexuality etc is wrong does not make you an intersectional.
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Intersectionality is just the view that different forms of discrimination can affect a single individual simultaneously & can't be separated
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This is something that most ppl wld agree with in the same way they agree with core definition of feminism - equality for women.
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However, in practice, this leads to all sorts of other ideas - simplistic ideas of privilege, reversal of hierarchies, identity as paramount
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Restricting PoC & women & LGBTs to certain categories, claiming intersectional values for them all, vilifying them if they don't hold them.
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Reading everything for offence, demanding everyone focus on race, gender & sexuality rather than individuality or shared human experience.
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We can agree that women shld have equality but decline feminism as a much broader phenomenon including ideology & practices we do not share.
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Similarly, we can agree an individual can be subjected to several forms of discrimination but decline the added baggage of intersectionality
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Ppl can have consistent principles which oppose discrimination & advocate gender/racial/LGBT equality w/out taking on either of those.
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I'd call this 'liberal' but know pp who share my values but reject 'liberal' seeing it as associated w the left whilst they are conservative
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I'd call it humanist but know ppl who share these values but reject 'humanist' seeing it as atheist whilst they are religious.
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I could argue with these ppl & insist they are liberals & humanists but this is much less important than promoting the values together.
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So pls do not tell anyone they are feminist or intersectional if they tell you they're not. They know what they're declining & why.
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