Was this useful? hmm.
Are your posts useful? Why do you spend so much time and energy warping discourse on racism to centre white people and undermine efforts toward reparative justice? You could just use that time to read up on the terms you improperly throw out.
The passive-aggressive identitarian calling me out about not making useful posts when your contributions amount to a race-to-the-bottom dynamic related to who can collect the most historically discriminated against identities to use as social capital? Come on, let's get real here. I'm not trying to center anything around white people - try harder with your straw man arguments. I know the terms perfectly, perhaps you do, too, so let's stop ***ing around.
Intersectionality is supposed to be about a constructive study about the idiosyncrasies created by different social structures such as race, class, and gender in lived experiences. Theoretically it sounds nice and constructive. As someone who had to read through a metric ****ton of intersectional academics' work and Queer Theorists articles I can categorically attest to the fact that while it's a field with an admirable theoretical goal, in practice it turns out being the exact opposite.
What it really ends up being from an academic perspective is the following:
Male minority-race heterosexual academic: Racism has affected my life negatively, we should do the following to fix structural racist discourse.
Male minority-race non-heteronormative academic: How dare you think your experience is bad, you're heterosexual! This is what we should do to fix structural racism and heteronormativity.
Female minority-race non-heteronormative academic: How dare you think your experience is bad, you're male! This is what we should do to fix gender-skewed, racist, heteronormative interactions.
Disabled female minority-race non-heteronormative academic: How dare you think your experience is bad, you're fully able-bodied and able-minded! This is what we should do to fix ableist, gender-skewed, racist, heteronormative interactions.
Transgender disabled minority-race non-heteronormative academic: How dare you think that your experience is bad, you're cis-gendered! This is what we should do to fix cis-gender biased, ableist, gender-skewed, racist, heteronormative interactions.
And so we go on. Intersectionality, and a lot of misguided (although well-intentioned) social reparation ideologies, are unfortunately underpinned by the notion that a person's identities disqualify them from having legitimate personal experiences - which naturally will one day only lead to hyper-segregated and niche social categories that people will fit into. From what I've picked up in previous discussions you're non-white and non-heterosexual, and because you subscribe at least tangentially to the intersectionality perspective you believe your opinion is law in this thread because your identities trump everyone else's. As someone who's actually interested in achieving the objectives of equal opportunity and harmony within a society, please make a plausible academic argument for how evaluating people solely on their identities could possibly foster a cohesive and functional society - assuming that's what you want.
