What Is Intersectionality?
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🗓️ 11 January 2019
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| 0:00.0 | You probably think your opinions matter. |
| 0:02.8 | You probably think you're an individual with unique experiences, thoughts, and ambitions. |
| 0:07.6 | Well, I hate to break it to you, but according to current leftist orthodoxy, you're wrong. |
| 0:12.0 | You see, your opinion only matters relative to your identity, and where that identity ranks |
| 0:17.2 | on the hierarchy of intersectionality. |
| 0:19.5 | If you're now thinking, what the hell are you talking about? |
| 0:22.0 | It haven't spent much time on a modern college campus. |
| 0:24.8 | Intersectionality is a form of identity politics, in which the value of your opinion |
| 0:29.3 | depends on how many victim groups you belong to. |
| 0:32.2 | At the bottom of the totem pole is the person everybody loves to hate, the straight white |
| 0:35.8 | male. |
| 0:36.8 | And who's at the top? |
| 0:37.8 | Well, it's very hard to say because new groups claim victim status all the time. |
| 0:42.0 | No one can keep track. |
| 0:43.4 | So how does this intersectionality thing play out? |
| 0:46.5 | Something like this. |
| 0:47.5 | Let's say you're a gay white woman. |
| 0:49.4 | Your opinion matters, but less than that of a gay black woman. |
| 0:52.8 | Why? |
| 0:53.8 | Because while all women are oppressed by the patriarchy and all gays are oppressed by the |
| 0:57.0 | heterosexual majority, blacks have a victim status that whites obviously don't. |
| 1:01.6 | Of course, a gay black woman's victim status is less than that of a black trans woman, |
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