Intersectionality for dummies
Intersectionality like it's evil twin CRT can also only be described in very broad strokes. But the key tenet would be the removal of individual responsibility and replacing it with group responsibility. And like CRT you could place them both under what people have come to call "Cultural Marxism" The idea being to replace what you originally think of how a society works (western society) with Cultural Marxism. The following video is a short summing up
https://rumble.com/v17naar-cultural-marxism-explained-in-7-minutes.html
Now Intersectionality is very much a theory of this left wing thinking. The language you use has been changed, bastardised but still recognisable.
Intersectional thinking believes it is only possible for white people to be racist. How did they turn the dictionary meaning above into something only white people can do? Simple, they insert power and privilege into the meaning. So because intersectional thinking believes only white people have power and privilege, then only white people can be racist.
But remember, this is a theory, far left theory, you do not, and should not accept the premise of the argument.
Critical theory is NOT the same as critical thinking. Please bear this in mind.
So intersectionality is just further poisoning of your mind, forcing you to accept the reality someone presents you with rather than the reality you know.
You create a group for white people, add another for black people, then one for women, then a few for religions, then another for young people, one for old people, one for trans people, one for rich and another for poor. Overlap them when the 2 (or 3 or 4) converge and we have the wonderfully tricky, yet also wonderfully dumb world of "intersectionality"
Sounds great (it doesn't sound great) but where do you stop? What about ginger people? or maybe fat people? and what about people of mixed parentage. Very quickly the whole things begins to look a bit silly (things actually look really silly)
For myself, if I were to partake in the oppression Olympics, I would be in the most privileged class, I am a straight, white male. But I also come from a working class background, never went to college and have never had a "career" I've only ever had jobs. So while I am not at the very top, I'm pretty close to it in this weird and whacky World. However, that all depends on who (or what) you consider to be the most privileged section of intersectionality to be.
At time of writing, the lowest performing child in the UK is the white, working class boy. Now why would that be? I don't know personally, but I suspect it would be the result of a number of reasons, I wouldn't like to speculate on those reasons, however....What I do know, and just via use of common sense is that if you were to magically elevate this struggling demographic of boys right to the very top of the "privilege pyramid" as soon as they turn 18 and become "white men" it's not going to work out well.
If, for example: If we judge wealth to be the most privileged then I would be very near the bottom. Would that still make me more privileged than a black person of similar wealth? That's debatable, my experience would be that it doesn't, Intersectionality tells me that it does, in fact, even if I were a tramp on the street, I would still have more privilege than a black millionaire because skin colour trumps everything. Why does it trump everything? Because they say so.
So now we have our pyramid of privilege, we can see that no matter what befalls you in life, you can never escape your group. But what happens if one demographics rights and privilege directly contravene someone else's? Lets look at the transsexual community and biological females.
Trans women are women, they're asking to be treated in exactly the same way as biological women.
Biological women are also asking that they keep certain sex based rights, such as separate sports, changing rooms, DV shelter access, toilets and changing rooms.
Now I don't want to get in a debate about who is right or wrong, I just want to point out yet another obvious problem in intersectional thinking.
If trans women are real women, where does that leave biological women's sex-based rights?
Well checking our intersectionality pyramid, then you're out of luck girls because "intersectionality"
I'm no scholar, yet even I can see how futile this all is. So let's have one final example. So recent in fact that the person embroiled in all this is currently undergoing a 2 week "suspension" from her show.
Whoopi Goldberg, is a black actress who stars in a regular daytime show called "the view" As is typical in these sort of shows it's more an ideologically left leaning show.
But this day among the panels usual topics came the topic of the holocaust.
This is where indoctrination over education falls flat.
The holocaust is "not about race" exclaimed a rather agitated Whoopi. "It's about Man's inhumanity to man, it's nothing to do with race"
Now, I am not a scholar, I don't have fancy degree's but I have been studying history (in particular 20th century history) for over 30 years. When I heard her say that I actually groaned, not just because I knew she was wrong, but because I also understood why she thinks she's right.
This is yet another fine example of where intersectional thinking and indeed CRT itself implodes in on itself.
Racism according to CRT "Something only white people can inflict on coloured people" Its something explicitly based on a power/privilege model. Intersectionalists place straight, white men at the top, ergo, they have all the power. But that doesn't take into account the nuances of reality. In todays discourse ask yourself which groups of people are you least likely to be able to attack without penalty? Its not straight white men is it? In every single case its minority groups who receive the most protection (not legally, we are all equal under the law) But certainly morally. This doesn't come across to Joe Public as a bad thing, but what if one (or more) wanted to abuse this grace? Then it becomes a very bad thing indeed
Intersectionalists take advantage of this system, taking advantage of a gullible public who cant see they're being played. But back to Whoopi...
Hitler described Jews as a race. But Jews can be both black and white, so it debunks the theory.
Later on, Whoopi would go on to espouse the exact same opinion on another talk show. She still failed to understand that what she was saying was factually wrong. Twitter lit up of course. Some defending Whoopi but most condemning her
"So we're allowing Hitler decide what is and isn't racism now" said one
Now I'm sure those words sounded really good in his head and as he hit send I bet he was patting himself on the back with the amazing gotcha he just delivered.
Which is a shame, because he is also wrong. Allow me to explain why.
Racism in itself is not something that can be defined easily. It's also not something that one particular race can claim for itself. You cant just say only white people can be racist. Well you can if you want to look silly I suppose. Nobody is using Hitlers definition of race, what is being used is the tried and trusted definition of race. Hitler's ideology fit's into this definition, but it wasn't actually Hitler himself who defined what racism actually is. He wrote Mein Kampf, not the Oxford English dictionary.
Suppose I was to say the Atlantic slave trade was never about racism, sounds silly and very wrong, but is it? Allow me to insert a caveat. I could quite easily argue that the Atlantic slave trade was nothing about race but actually about commerce and economics. When the West first began exploring Africa and saw how African kingdoms enslaved and treated other kingdoms, what they saw was a great way to make money, free labour while we colonise the America's. But lets not go down that rabbit hole, I don't know how every person back then viewed people of a different hue of skin to their own. Of course, reading a few history books clearly shows what many white people thought of black people, but this post isn't about that.
Summing up
For anyone that's read 1984 then you'll know all about how authoritarian censorship works, how language is removed, changed and regurgitated. What you previously thought to be true becomes a distant memory, you cant articulate what has happened or how it happened because the language no longer exists to express it.
So when someone tells you that CRT isn't being taught in schools, or that only white people can be racist or that slavery began and ended with the trans-Atlantic slave trade, or that Cultural Marxism isn't a thing, its just something the far right have made up. You know who you're dealing with, this is someone who has lost the ability of critical thinking and fallen into the cultish trap of critical theory.
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