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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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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