intersectionality is a falsehood
note: this is all in layman's terms, and I'm skipping over some topics that tie in because otherwise it's too much. This is a summary.
What is intersectionality? Its how your demographics may play a role in how you are perceived and how your inherit lived experience as a person may play out depending on who you are as a person.
For example, if I'm:
a woman
darker skinned
Hispanic
an immigrant
That means that I probably experience:
Systemic oppression + racism + sexism
The concept of intersectionality reduces my own agency and diminishes my choices as an individual person.
Instead, I am placed into an "oppression rating" box and given a generalized understanding of how I may experience the world, or even how the world itself may view me.
Intersectionality is another ideological lens applied to our modern day life experience but it does not paint a full picture, nor should it.
It is not verifiable fact, and it is simply another method of teaching victimization and inherent victimhood to (possibly) displaced groups.
Rather than focusing on merit and work ethic, we are taught from a young age to point fingers, but never to find true answers.
In a way, intersectionality opens the door to a vague form of identity tribalism.
It paints the picture that you are a collective minority, but does not emphasize you as an individual in any real sense.
It's almost an inverted form of the racism we are claimed to experience.
A white man is racist against me because he sees me as an other, but now, I can be racist against him, automatically, because I know that he is the true oppressor.
if I view myself as oppressed for being a woman and for being possibly perceived as non white, then the way that I perceive the world also changes.
I may begin viewing the world in a heirarchical manner. There are those beneath me (white men, white women) in the heirarchy and those above. This way of viewing the world even bleeds into merit vs. identity.
Now. It no longer becomes about my work ethic, but rather, my personal identity is what is holding me back in institutions that are dominated by white men (the top oppressor). Never mind the fact that the institution themselves teach intersectionality to our youth today.
If my identity is everything to me, and how it may intrinsically affect me, then success is no longer about what I could be doing, but rather, on how I may be wrongly perceived.
Intersectionality becomes almost caste in nature.
There's an oppressed and an oppressor, and theres a ranking system.
Through this ranking system, I am not longer allowed to question others, merely based on their entire identity. Identity politics becomes the center talking point and it disarm all topics of conversation because now, those on the bottom of the intersectionality hierarchy have no say in most things, because they are perceived as the "oppressors".
All identity is based on outward appearance. If you are white and male? You're at the very bottom of the heirarchy. You are the oppressor and simultaneously, you are mocked for it. You have no victimhood points. It completely removes your autonomy as a person and any lived experience you may have had is no longer counted.
If someone is above me in the heirarchical intersectional ranking, then I am no longer allowed to question them, because automatically, they are much worse off than I am.
Intersectionality is often tied with feminism. Most often in radical feminist groups. Intersectional feminism highlights that not all women are equally oppressed.
This focus on who is oppressed and who holds power reflects a broader ideological framework that, historically, originated in Marxist thought.
When Marxist theory couldn’t inject itself economically in the West in the late 1800s, it was later attempted in a much more sinister matter in the early 1900s.
It began to shape social ideas, including frameworks like intersectional feminism, which highlight the oppressed vs. the oppressor.
Why am I rambling on about Marxist theory? Because, my point leads to here: intersectionality is another tool used by marxists in order to allow people to envision the worldview of oppressed v. oppressor. This is another lens added to:
feminism
racism
gender
All of these subjects are inherently Marxist in nature. Not to say that these are not present or non existant issues, (though i would not use 'ism terms) I believe that Marxism injects itself in the weaker chains that hold a society together.
It creates a very simplistic image of society that allows room for the next step: by turning people against each other and creating divisions in several facets of our culture as a society, we are inherently creating a chasm.
Our society is no longer rooted in shared values because an ideology has displaced our entire shared worldview. It creates a backdoor into removing the "oppressor" from their supposed throne, and replacing them with the "oppressed" class. Now, will the elites accept that they are going to be replaced? Whats the end goal here?
I'm lucid dreaming here, but I think that the true elites have to do with Marxism in the first place. How else would it be injected so effectively into our mainstream. I don't even think Karl Marx wrote the theory himself, he probably wrote it for someone else much more higher in power than he ever was. He was literally a stinky bum.