In saner days, I really liked the idea of Intersectionality — which I understood as "every person is an unfathomably multifaceted system" > "the complexity of that system is unreal" > "you can't confidently assume very much about a person based on a handful of surface features"
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The principle has been almost entirely flipped — a handful of (admittedly very socially salient) surface features are assumed to have simple enough multiplicative effects on one another that a person's difficulties in life can be more or less checklisted
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It's honestly just making me a bit sad this morning. I really think this social humility is a bit of the salve we need to heal whatever it is that's going on with us politically — and leeching into relationships that *should be* hardier than this
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