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> Intersectionality is still used primarily, in practice, to promote the interests of higher classes against lower ones. I don't follow what this means? How do
by karpierz 4y ago
> Intersectionality is still used primarily, in practice, to promote the interests of higher classes against lower ones.
I don't follow what this means? How does one 'use' intersectionality to promote interests? I thought intersectionality was the idea that intersections of identities have different experiences than the components.
Ex: Black women have experiences that are unique to that intersection of identity, which aren't experienced by people who are only one of women or Black.
- lmm 4y ago> I don't follow what this means? How does one 'use' intersectionality to promote interests? The same way as any other idea/concept/framework; one finds arguments which it supports that promotes the interest one wants to promote. What's so strange about that?
- karpierz 4y agoI guess I didn't think 'use' meant 'use facts to make arguments to advance your interests'? Like, I wouldn't say that I 'use' 'asymptotic complexity' to promote engineering priorities over product management. I read a lot of nefariousness in that phrasing, but I guess that's not what was meant.
- lmm 4y agoI've certainly seen cases where people would "use asymptotic complexity" to, say, argue for a system that was better for their CV than one that was appropriate to the amount of data actually being processed. I did mean to at least suggest a certain amount of nefariousness; I think a lot of those who adopt intersectionality as a way of framing/approaching issues do so not solely out of sincere truth-seeking but because (consciously or otherwise) it makes it easier to reach conclusions that suit the upper classes and, perhaps even more importantly, makes it easier to avoid reaching conclusions that don't suit the upper classes.