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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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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Intersectionality has transformed into a political movement to unite "oppressed minorities", defined entirely by superficial features and not by any actual oppression, in order to further an ultimately Marxist agenda.
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This is the best description I’ve read on the topic.
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This is IMO true of postmodernism in general. It didn’t start out as an anti-realist dogma system but as a critique of authority-hoarding hubris.
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This is what
@jordanbpeterson often refers to that when you take the logic of intersectionality to its limit you arrive at the primacy of the individual. It’s a shell game though because the point of intersectionality has always been to emphasize the surface tribal differences.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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