It should do. In practice , it often focuses on race & gender identity & neglects class coz then white men cld be disadvantaged too.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
It's an ideology. If people apply its foundations wrong, that's not really the ideology failing, but people co-opting it for an agenda.
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Replying to @apeirophobic
Has Crenshaw focused much on class apart from when affecting ppl with a marginalised identity?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Not that I have seen. This class inclusive intersectionalism is mostly happening in progressive left, Socialist, Marxist, Anarchist circles.
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Replying to @apeirophobic
Ah. You're from that school of thought. It was Crenshaw who coined the term & then critical race theory & it is this branch I refer to.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @apeirophobic
Did the radical left have their own definition of intersectionality from the start or did it adopt the term & apply it more fully?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
For a lot of these center-leftists, discussion of class is not only taboo because of ID politics, but also because they are capitalist.
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Replying to @apeirophobic
I think we have a different conception of centre-leftism. I see the radical left & the PoMo left as 'far' but different branches of far.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I would say that post-modernism is not really a trait localized to any part of the left, but a cancer in the entire spectrum.
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Replying to @apeirophobic
I'm talking about the theories that explicitly drew on it - intersectionality (Crenshaw), Queer Theory, Post-colonial theory etc.
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That kind of academic leftism which has been taken on by the identity politics, cultural-relativity left.
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