The Illiberal Logic of Intersectionality | @xchrisgonzhttp://quillette.com/2018/05/08/illiberal-logic-intersectionality/ …
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Replying to @QuilletteM @xchrisgonz
This mischaracterizes the ruling. I'd never heard of this so looked it up. The court said that her being a black women didn't give her any SPECIAL standing above a person who only qualified for one protected class. She still had standingpic.twitter.com/wJGU2hoZTd
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Yes, but it didn't recognise the discrimination because it wasn't one of racism or sexism. If the company employed white women & black men, they could openly discriminate against black women (usually due to stereotypes abt aggressiveness & promiscuity) w/out any recourse.
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Not that it matters because this isn't precedent currently, but it did recognize that there was a claim of discrimination and reviewed the claim under the statute. Negative result was on the merits of the sex discrimination claim.
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With the sex discrimination claim dismissed, the court advised the plaintiff to join with a different suit of black male GE employees for the racial discrimination claim that was ongoing.
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The rule both suits were claiming was discriminatory was a labor agreement condition in which the most junior people are fired first. Since this condition didn't explicitly target women, blacks or black women, the claims were thrown out
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You're saying there was already a way to claim discrimination as a black woman, not just as black or as woman? Crenshaw was wrong about that? Or she didn't take it to court?
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A parallel would be if an intersectional organisation said 'No white men' & there was no way to act against this because you could only complain about racism OR sexism and the organisation allowed white women and black men. There'd need to be a recognition WM specif disadvantaged
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