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Your description of intersectionality is the exact opposite of what it is. It's entire purpose is to show everyone that playing the operation Olympics is a poin

Your description of intersectionality is the exact opposite of what it is. It's entire purpose is to show everyone that playing the operation Olympics is a pointless game that no one wins. It's too show that everyone's struggles don't fit into neat little boxes that define them, and show that social problems are multidimensional that don't have simple solutions, and shows that a lot of DEI initiatives are superficial, and likely won't make any real difference.

DrThunder 4y ago
"everyone that playing the operation Olympics is a pointless game that no one wins" Except reality has proven you wrong. We've never lived in a time where people are more well fed, have more personal belongings, longer life spans etc. It is in fact, objectively, not a pointless game.
- LordDragonfang 4y ago
  "operation Olympics" is pretty clearly an autocorrect typo of "oppression Olympics", which makes this response kind of a non-sequitor.
mikrotikker 4y ago
Intersectionality? The ideology famous for having a victim heirarchy so you have an ideological rating of how much of a victim someone is?
- LordDragonfang 4y ago
  Could you link me to the source that describes intersectionality in a way even remotely approximating that? Or where this "victim hierarchy" is detailed? I'd love to calculate my victim score™.
  - mikrotikker 4y ago
    https://medium.com/@burntoakboy/the-hierarchy-of-victimhood-5f356f051966#:~:text=But%20perhaps%20the%20worst%20thing,deserving%20of%20ridicule%20and%20censorship https://medium.com/@burntoakboy/the-hierarchy-of-victimhood-....
    - ModernMech 4y ago
      What’s missing here is a notion of intersectionality, which explicitly is about how people are not just a singular identity, but an “intersection” of many - some of which may confer privilege, some of which may be discriminated against. Ignoring this body of work makes the linked article a straw man argument with some cherry picked examples that don’t even make a point (why am I supposed to care that AOC tweets about some people at the exclusion of others?)
      - mikrotikker 4y ago
        You missed the forest for the trees, friend.
        ModernMech 4y ago
        There’s not much of a forest there, as far as I can tell. Unless you want to actually make a point?
    - kodah 4y ago
      AOC isnt exactly a shining light of intersectionalism. In fact, she kind of prides herself in tribalism. Consider this tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/aoc/status/1103163478024601601 https://mobile.twitter.com/aoc/status/1103163478024601601 Rather than trying to share ground with others she's being reminded that she regularly drowns out other people's voices. She went on to do exactly that after this. If your point is that not all leftists are intersectionalists and not all people who use intersectionalist words actually have the values, then I'd respond with, "duh". Intersectionality isn't about telling one person's story or exemplifying one person's pain. It's about showing that these things are interconnected and effect people differently, and ways in which you probably wouldn't expect. It does the absolute opposite of a hierarchy.

DrThunder 4y ago

"everyone that playing the operation Olympics is a pointless game that no one wins" Except reality has proven you wrong. We've never lived in a time where people are more well fed, have more personal belongings, longer life spans etc. It is in fact, objectively, not a pointless game.

LordDragonfang 4y ago
"operation Olympics" is pretty clearly an autocorrect typo of "oppression Olympics", which makes this response kind of a non-sequitor.

mikrotikker 4y ago

Intersectionality? The ideology famous for having a victim heirarchy so you have an ideological rating of how much of a victim someone is?

LordDragonfang 4y ago
Could you link me to the source that describes intersectionality in a way even remotely approximating that? Or where this "victim hierarchy" is detailed? I'd love to calculate my victim score™.
- mikrotikker 4y ago
  https://medium.com/@burntoakboy/the-hierarchy-of-victimhood-5f356f051966#:~:text=But%20perhaps%20the%20worst%20thing,deserving%20of%20ridicule%20and%20censorship https://medium.com/@burntoakboy/the-hierarchy-of-victimhood-....
  - ModernMech 4y ago
    What’s missing here is a notion of intersectionality, which explicitly is about how people are not just a singular identity, but an “intersection” of many - some of which may confer privilege, some of which may be discriminated against. Ignoring this body of work makes the linked article a straw man argument with some cherry picked examples that don’t even make a point (why am I supposed to care that AOC tweets about some people at the exclusion of others?)
    - mikrotikker 4y ago
      You missed the forest for the trees, friend.
      - ModernMech 4y ago
        There’s not much of a forest there, as far as I can tell. Unless you want to actually make a point?
  - kodah 4y ago
    AOC isnt exactly a shining light of intersectionalism. In fact, she kind of prides herself in tribalism. Consider this tweet: https://mobile.twitter.com/aoc/status/1103163478024601601 https://mobile.twitter.com/aoc/status/1103163478024601601 Rather than trying to share ground with others she's being reminded that she regularly drowns out other people's voices. She went on to do exactly that after this. If your point is that not all leftists are intersectionalists and not all people who use intersectionalist words actually have the values, then I'd respond with, "duh". Intersectionality isn't about telling one person's story or exemplifying one person's pain. It's about showing that these things are interconnected and effect people differently, and ways in which you probably wouldn't expect. It does the absolute opposite of a hierarchy.