Good piece. I get impatient with 'There's nothing wrong with the ideology! People are just doing it wrong!' whether it's communism, Sharia, intersectionality whatever.' Benign interpretations of almost anything can & do exist but the reality of what a thing is in practice mattershttps://twitter.com/CampbellSocProf/status/975076836236390401 …
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But, in practice, it does. I also recognise the drive to 'reclaim' good concepts from bad actors rather than abandon them to them. It's why I hung on to the label of 'feminist' for so long and still respect truly liberal feminists who do this.
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But we need to be careful that we are not prioritising and defending an ideology at the expense of defending actual human beings being harmed by the ideology.
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No point saying that communism, properly understood, is about sharing & fairness when mass murder & starvation have been the reality. No point saying Islam, properly understood, says there's no compulsion in religion when apostasy carries the death penalty in 13 countries.
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Similarly, there is no point saying that intersectionality, properly understood, is just a hermeneutic for understanding how people can be marginalised on many levels when in reality it leads to stereotyping, discrimination, tribalism, science-denial & violent censoriousness,
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I genuinely believe that intersectionality is a means by which we can come to understand our shared humanity.
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That's wrong. Either that or intersectionality is being grossly misrepresented by it's supporters.
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I mean, I’m not lying, and this is exactly as I understand the framework. There *is* a third option here: you may be wrong.
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Also, if you wanted to, I’d be happy to maybe try to explain
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Actually, I'd appreciate someone else's perspective on this matter.
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Ok. May I ask why? Do you know anyone else who might be willing to discuss that?
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Because you offered? I'm just staying to get different perspectives.
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*trying
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