> 1. Intersectionality Employs Dangerous and Imprecise Language Here he objects to the fact that xality "presupposes that most people in the United States suffer from oppression" ... but that's not an idea specific to xality, just a general objection to using a leftist framework
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Replying to @light_rook @HPluckrose
> 2. Intersectionality Encourages Ideological Uniformity and Fosters Groupthink Again, gives some examples of groupthink found in xional thinkers, but gives no reason to think that this in exceeds the usual found in left spaces or even just activist spaces (which r prone to it)
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Replying to @light_rook @HPluckrose
> 3. Intersectionality Necessitates Radicalism > Thus, intersectionality is made to function at the service of Marxism political projects Yes, a lot of xal though is done by people who...already consider themselves Marxists. So this should be neither surprising nor revealing
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Replying to @light_rook
The Marxists generally hate the intersectionals. They feel they stole the left from them and made it bourgeois and took it out of the working classes spaces and into the universities.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
uh, how many Marxists do you know? this has been absolutely not my experience with them...
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Replying to @light_rook
Quite a few! We used not to get on because they considered me too liberal but since I have been criticising the postmodern left, we've found common ground on that at least. They ask me to circulate this. http://www.communistvoice.org/15cPostmodern.html …
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Replying to @light_rook @HPluckrose
I think that the Marxist objection to postmodernism is pretty universal, but Intersectionality also makes sense inside a Marxist framework without having to bite some of the nasty postmodernist bullets.
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Replying to @light_rook @HPluckrose
But putting aside Marx, C4SS has a pretty good explanation of how to construct intersectionality from a left-libertarian framework somewhere if I can dig it up
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Replying to @light_rook @HPluckrose
I think this is what I was thinking of, where Kevin Carson briefly outlines how to construct the idea of intersectionality inside a left-libertarian framework:https://c4ss.org/content/17886
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Doesn't mention Crenshaw at all whereas Gonzalez argument is that these problems are written into intersectionality via Crenshaw. Maybe he'd oppose a version which reasonably & empirically gave consideration to intersecting discriminations but I'd disagree & he doesnt there.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Right, I think that focusing on Crenshaw is a strawman, sort of like criticizing phyiscs by criticizing Newton.
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