A Decolonial Critique of Intersectionality
▻https://www.filmsforaction.org/articles/a-decolonial-critique-of-intersectionality
Background
Many progressive groups and academics carry the narrative of intersectionality in their work and activism. Intersectionality calls for the recognition of multiple forms of oppression...
You should actively support gay rights, animal rights, anti-semitism, anti-patriarchy, veganism etc. If you don’t – not because you are against it, but because it is not your priority – then you are a bad activist.
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Crenshaw opened the door to bring in all kind of oppression under one umbrella.
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An oppressed person will need a PhD degree to understand his or her oppression.
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The third critique is that intersectionality levels all oppressions. One experience can not be valued higher or lower than another experience of oppression. In the case of slavery the patriarchal oppression of black women is not different from the patriarchal oppression of white women. The difference between black and white women is not in patriarchal oppression but in the experience of racism, which white women don’t experience. Is a white women with the power to sell a black man or woman on the same road of patriarchy as the black women? This is clearly ridiculous. The oppression of black people during slavery is not at the same level as the oppression of white women by white men. Intersectionality levels these oppressions and can not make a distinction in the hierarchy of human suffering.
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We have an age-old alternative for the concept of intersectionality that captures the sentiment of unity and that is the concept of solidarity. It is not based on the intersection of oppression but on the empathy, sympathy and love for people who are struggling for peace, justice, dignity and welfare.
Complément pour le fait que ce soit flou, pas clair :
▻https://seenthis.net/messages/821375
▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMEhyKqMWmA
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J’allais le dire, @rastapopoulos : ce qui est rassurant c’est que le concept a autant de définitions que d’adeptes. Restons-en donc à ce truc : exiger de chacun·e l’attention à ce que vivent les autres. Un minimum d’empathie et de respect.