I still feel that it's most important as a society to support individuality & foster unionality & that group identity shouldn't matter.
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eg Germany. No same sex marriage. A lesbian wld need to speak as a member of a group & organise with a group to address this.
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She's disadvantaged on a group level. She should still be able to be an individual as well & be fully engaged with wider society.
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Ok, I agree with that. Does a position exist that disagrees with that? How?
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Yes! Do you remember my Problem with Intersectional Feminism piece which looked at that?https://areomagazine.com/2017/02/15/the-problem-with-intersectional-feminism/ …
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She is likely to be asked to focus on identity & blamed or accused of betrayal if she doesn't find this identity primary thing abt her.
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“need for focus on distinct experiences of groups” — I agree. “…its members relating to wider society” — Who ignores that, how?
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Eg when Crenshaw discourages saying 'I am a person who happens to be black' & saying instead 'I am black'.
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When people in minority groups are expected to only focus on the art, culture, issues etc of that group. Shakespeare must be rejected etc
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When people are called coconuts or coons or native informants for holding humanist or liberal values as if they can't belong to them too.
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As if whole world of ideas & art and potential relationships based on shared experiences rather than culturally specific ones are a betrayal
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Some people might see it as a betrayal. My view is that assimilation can make people blind of their own group-based oppression.
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E.g. women of color who have learned to explain their career failures in terms of not-misogyny and not-racism.
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Surely, what's important is whether it *is* misogyny and racism. Shouldn't be a political requirement to think it is or isn't.
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