Me, on the problem with intersectionality if inclusion, diversity and social justice are what you want.https://twitter.com/areomagazine/status/831883026539884545 …
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This is a nice way of summing it up. I was first drawn to intersectionality because I felt their premises - that ppl of
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different identity can have vastly different experiences and sometimes liberalism fail to take that into account - is a good
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observation; unfortunately in practice, such reasonable premise degenerates into utterly ridiculous standards and sometimes
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outright hypocrisy. And I couldn't stand that any longer. I refused to think that I MUST identify with my ethnicity more than
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my humanity.
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And that really is at the core of it. You lose personhood for blackness, Asianness, femaleness, gayness etc. Too high a price.
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Precisely! And it hinders discussion. It's one thing to point out that a white author, due to his personal experience,
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may have overlooked a black woman's different experience; it's quite another to assert that BECAUSE of his identity, he will
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