But to be black in America is still harder. Black Americans are disproportionately subject to police violence, they struggle against a significant racial wealth gap, and even controlling for education, have a harder time securing and advancing in employment
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Intersectionally, then, we can see that the black woman, inheriting both the difficulties of womanhood and blackness, is getting a VERY short end of the stick. Intersectionality informs us she has a different experience from white women and black men in her marginalization
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So, why does JP respond with such vehemence and disdain to intersectionality, a mundane tool for analysis of marginalization along identity lines? “I will fight it every step of the way” Well, I’ll tell you. It’s not just that marginalization stacks Privilege stacks toopic.twitter.com/vvLL0PYxGT
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If the black woman is the least protected person in America, who is the most protected? Why, it’s the white man, of course. You can see this playing out in the White House right now. The most overtly corrupt president in modern memory and people keep covering for him. It’s wild
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When people are like “can you IMAGINE if Obama had done [whatever],” what they’re really remarking on is the double standards of white, male privilege Being both white and male confers innumerable benefits—but the biggest one is the right to individuality
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A white man is allowed to fail on his own merits. While POC are constantly treated as avatars for their entire identity groups, white men get to be singular I stress men, here, because even white women are subject to this. Imagine a woman president as “emotional” as trump is
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Why, it would be cited as evidence that women AS A WHOLE were unfit for executive duty So my hypothesis here is that JP is pissed about intersectionality because it holds an uncomfortable mirror to his face: a reckoning with a life and career accelerated by a privileged identity
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There’s a wonderful paper called “White Fragility” that neatly explains the spastic flailings we see from folks like JP during these kinds of discussions. You must read it. http://libjournal.uncg.edu/ijcp/article/download/249/116 …pic.twitter.com/KpJrlQxYVH
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While DiAngelo is concerned with race, I think you can extrapolate a corollary system of fragility around discussions of gender for men. White, male fragility around identity is real, and well demonstrated by the likes of JP. All this to say: it happens all the time
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What is vexing about folks like JP is that no amount of good faith discussion will make a difference. The cognitive dissonance of their fragility is like a forcefield that allows no information to pass. I have no idea how you solve this problem.
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You organize to exclude them from spaces where their views have the potential to harm individuals and efforts at systemic progress.
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