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Slack.com slash DHQ. Many of you may recently have heard the term intersectionality, and

you may have asked, what is intersectionality? Or you may have asked, why can't you just

shut up and leave me the hell alone? Let me try to answer at least one of those questions.

Intersectionality is a term invented by Kimberly Crenshaw, and she's a law professor, specializing

in gender and race, so you know whatever she says is going to be great. Intersectionality

is the theory that people can be understood through intersecting social identities, such

as race, gender, social class, and sexual orientation. It's only when the effect of all your interwoven

identities is fully understood that you know how much you're allowed to blame your crappy

life on other people. Blaming your crappy life on other people is called being oppressed,

and being oppressed gives you the right to shout stupid stuff while wearing a pink hat

that makes you look like a complete idiot. This is a good thing because it keeps you from

having to do something useful, which can be hard and take up a lot of your social media

time. If you don't have enough intersecting social identities, then you are just some

schmuck or a white guy, and you have to work for a living to pay taxes to support intersectional

people so they have time to scream at you and blame you for their crappy lives. Now you

may say, well, wait, in America people aren't really oppressed very much, and they can

improve their lots by rising above the dysfunction in their communities in order to live productive

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