Yeah that's not racism. It's just mean. Maybe it's racial prejudice? I feel like maybe you haven't been reading the thread at all?
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The homeless experience discrimination too. Is this a good time to introduce the concept of intersectionality?
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Let's call it a day, Allison.
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@allisons would you be so kind as to introduce me to intersectionality? Turns out it is important to me.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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I'm going to naively assume you're being sincere. Because hope! The first thing you need to get is the concept of social stratification. Society is not an undifferentiated blob - people are different and they're organized in to stratum or hierarchical layers.
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Replying to @allisons @TeubenRoald
The features, characteristics, and interests are unequally valued. Society as a whole is designed by and for the dominant group.
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But obviously there's more than one way to slice up people into these groups - the most obvious one's being gender, race, and economic class.
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And you may be in the privileged class for one group and the underprivileged class for another. I'm an upper middle class white woman. I have lots and lots of white and class privilege but I suffer (some) disadvantages because I'm female.
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And that's the basics of intersectionality - there's an *intersection* of different identities that can lead to a compounding of disadvantage or the dilution of the disadvantage depending on where you land on that line.
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So a white houseless person may be better off than a black houseless person (considering that even poor white people are more likely to have relatives with sufficient resources to help out), but obviously it's a big disadvantage not to have a permanent address.
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Thank you, that makes sense to me.
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