Re:Who gets to define what’s ‘racist?’ (2020)
by evv555 on Friday August 20, 2021 @10:17PM
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"Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
Re:Who gets to define what’s ‘racist?’ (2020)
by noobermin on Saturday August 21, 2021 @07:33PM
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What I'll say is if your goal is to change society's power relations to make society more egalitarian, then dealing with individuals only is expressly impotent to bring about change because atomized individuals, disconnected from each other, cannot bring about change.
Intersectionality is about the experience of privilege/disadvantage/discrimination differing, on a way that is not a simple linear combination of effects, by combinations (“intersections”) of group memberships. While it applies to groups, there's no magical lower bound on size for its applicability, and when you consider more axes of differentiation, the size of the groups represented by distinct intersections approaches one.