Thursday, August 1, 2019

i want to be clear about a point.

in 2019, when you start pulling out words like "intersectionality", there's no predicting where you're going to actually go with it. it's a buzz word - it means everything and nothing at the same time. that wasn't yet the case in 2013.

so, i'm going to want to hear what you actually mean before i react. and, i'm ultimately going to want to see what your policy actually is, before i rip it apart as orwellian doublespeak - because i can't know beforehand if you're actually going down the rabbit hole, or if you're just being vacuous and trendy.

but, i will hold by my argument: any legitimate attempt at intersectional analysis that i've seen has in the end been a corollary of burkean conservatism, and has never made any sense in an actual socialist context. and, it's usually trotted out to uphold some kind of neo-liberal identity politics.