Skips the frame where the guy says 'If we worry about ending disenfranchisement in general rather than try to fight every particular case of it with its own splinter movement, and women are disproportionately disenfranchised, they will be disproportionately benefited,' and the left woman says, 'dang, good point.' but the right woman refuses to join forces because 'it won't address the disproportionate disenfranchisement of black women,' and then the last frame where the billionaire sells them each a coded torch and pitchfork set, one labeled as 'for men,' painted stealth black with LEDs, one 'for women,' painted pink, and one labeled 'for black feminist liberators,' with a picture of Sojourner Truth painted on it, and uses a small piece of the money to pay someone to just shoot them and justifies it based on them being an armed mob now.
Imagine having this terrible a take about intersectionality that you think it’s about dividing instead of understanding and supporting.
I do understand that sometimes in groups not all their members' issues are addressed equally. But everytime a group split, it does get smaller and will be less able to have an impact. Lately, all the groups are pointing fingers to each other without noticing that the it is not 'us' vs 'them'. If you see who is in power, who isn't making the changes for us humans and where the money is flowing, that is where you need to look.
And it so happens to be that a LOT of information about those people is in the EPSTEIN files.
Treat each other like humans and bring back accountability for the everyone.
Intersectionality is not 'splitting', that's a very doomer binary way to view it. The only 'splitting' here is the white woman turning on her ally and doing the same thing the man was doing in the first panel.
One big movement can be made up of many small movements, intersectionality is recognising how all these small groups operate together and influence each other. For example a gay black persons experiences are different from a black hetero persons and a gay white persons, yet they can also relate to aspects of each other. So when you fight for your allies, you learn their unique issues and visa versa.
Intersectionality is viewing discrimination as a Venn diagram, but it's the same fight.
Thank you for your explanation. I'll take it in consideration.
It may be a blend of both. Maybe I am seeing a lot of bad lately. Fighting between men and women. Fighting between basically every group there is.
Time to touch some grass I guess.
I mean, it has been applied as a way to divide, like when Bernie proposed all sorts of policies to help the poor and mainstream media ran with "but what does Bernie do specifically for poor black people?"
That's not to say there aren't such specific concerns, but it wasn't like Hillary was doing any better in that regard. It was solely used as a way to make Bernie look less progressive. So instead we got Trump with the simple and straightforward "make america great again".
Fighting a war on multiple fronts is a great way to stretch your resources thin and muddy the strategy.
Bernie didn't lose by focusing on black people, he lost because the entire DNC apparatus worked against him.
Neither of you are wrong.
That was my point, the DNC and their mainstream media buddies said that he didn't focus enough on issues facing specifically black people. That was one of many attacks they made against him.
I prefer Cthulhu's position.
No lives matter, and that's a fact.
Misanthropic division posting hours

"I hate everyone equally" is a very misanthropic, nihilistic thing to say. The misanthropic division is a neo-nazi group that has really embraced this idea.
Basically with your comment the vibes are off.
The one colonists hate the most:
indigenous lives matter.
It's always ironic to see non-native Americans talk about stopping illegal immigration, like hahaha it's not so funny now is it.
stupid comic for liberal types - please understand that you standing up as an autistic black feminist with one leg and a penchant for grapefruits does not result in significant change for society. yes, you exist, the world is full of wealthy evil, lets do something about that instead of talking about ourselves.
Intersectionality being a subsection of feminism is like a library being subsection of a book. It doesn't make sense.
Intersectionality covers a much, much broader set of discrimination, and discrimination of women is just one side. Putting it under the umbrella of feminism is as random as putting it under, say, trans rights movement. Yes, there are specific issues on the intersection of gender, race, or age, or disability, but they are relevant not only for women. There are issues specific of black men, young trans people, etc.
When it's all framed under feminism, it's not clear where discriminated men and nonbinary people stand in all of this. Some people claim feminism is about everyone, and so there's already something that works. Others reasonably state feminism is about women pretty much by definition. Put it together, and you'll see how discriminated men and nonbinary folks are casually thrown out of a conversation and support net that has somehow put one specific issue in its center.
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