Posted: Nov 11, 2019 5:47 am
Spearthrower wrote:I often wonder what effect they had on the current parlous state of fake news, false equivalence, and abject failure to distinguish between what can be said to be fact and what we might prefer to be true.
I give you, as an object lesson:
There are various forms of social stratification such as class, race, sexual orientation, age, religion, creed, disability, and gender, which are included in the consideration of intersectional feminism and its social and cultural effects. The purpose of intersectionality as a theory is to identify how overlapping categories of identity impact individuals and institutions, and take these relationships into account when working to promote social and political equity. While the theory began as an exploration of the oppression of women of color within society, today the analysis has expanded to include many more aspects of social identity. Intersectionality may also be related to the term triple oppression, which engages with similar themes.
Intersectionality has been critiqued as being ambiguous and open-ended. As it is based in standpoint theory, critics say the focus on subjective experiences can lead to contradictions and the inability to identify common causes of oppression.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intersectionality
At first blush, this has nothing to do with what aufbahrung is rattling on about -- ontology and what-have-you. It's not as if there is no evidence of social inequality, and people find a need for something to write about. Everything we write here is about something, except in the cases of rambling diatribes with which we cannot connect, intersect, and genuflect.