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That’s the theory, which, if you actually took to its logical conclusion, would result in treating and evaluating every individual as an individual, and the ent
by teakettle42 4y ago
That’s the theory, which, if you actually took to its logical conclusion, would result in treating and evaluating every individual as an individual, and the entire concept of group identity as a short-hand mechanism for assigning “intersecting identities” would have to be abandoned.
That’s not how it is applied in practice.
- watwut 4y agoIt does not logically follows at all. Nothing in what previous poster said prevents analysis of group behavior or treatment. It does not make it impossible to talk about race or gender or age - it only makes it less naive.
- teakettle42 4y agoIt makes it impossible to assign an individual identity — and evaluate individual behavior and status — as merely a function of their coarse-grained group membership.
- watwut 4y agoIt does not make it impossible at all. And it also does not need to. You can talk about how groups are influenced or how they interact without making all the interaction to be result of "merely" just that.
- raxxorraxor 4y agoIt does not follow logically but it still is prudent to do exactly that for reasons that intersectionality doesn't have a perspective on.