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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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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never understand the problem and should never offer his opinion. If he's wrong, it's because he failed to consider the
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problem in its entirety, NOT BECAUSE HE'S WHITE. Focusing so much on identity doesn't help problem solving, at all.
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No. Its sometimes relevant to suggest someone might be unaware of a bias but this should not be assumed,
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