I find some of the ideals of intersectionality appealing -- I used to half-jokingly call myself a right-intersectionalist -- but it's clear that in practice it's mostly an ideology for new elites to leverage against old elites, its analysis of power hopelessly compromised.
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Homeless white guy dragging himself down the street on a handcart is more privileged than Jay-Z to these motherfuckers. What can you say to that?
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And the country with the "highest levels of marginalized people"? That's right. Of course. Saudi Arabia. https://intersectionalityscore.com/?action=recent
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Starting to this this is a big ruse or hoax and I have been rusehoaxed.
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That's not a very good result but it probably accurately captures what some people believe.
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It's what you get when you reify correlates of power, like race, and use them to obscure actual power, like wealth. You get a strategic propaganda tool for the most actually privileged among the nominally disprivileged.
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Barack fucking Hussein fucking Obama, *generously* (like, putting him halfway between white and POC), scores a 21 -- less privileged than 55% of the population.
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Doesn't say, which makes me start to think it's a ruse.
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Inclined to think as much. Genuine essjaydubyas don't tend to be this explicit about their privilege hierarchies.
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Well, only if he "identifies as" such.
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Damn I’m only better then 86% of people, I need to work harder.
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It's absurd that being rich makes you only 5 points or so more privileged than being poor.
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The whole "trans" thing is a scam to allow White men to win the Oppression
#Olympics. And the actual Olympics, come to think of it.

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"Privilege" and this new-fangled spawn of a word-salad "intersectionality" is just another way for malcontents to justify their ENVY.
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