Would anyone care to translate "Intersectionality Matters"?

[brooklynite]

Some of the Bernie holdouts in the CA delegation were holding signs with this on them last night.

[jmg257]

1. "Intersectional analysis looks at the different axes of privilege that intersect..

to give each person their unique identity and the treatment they will receive from society.

Glenn Greenwald, for example, has white privilege and male privilege, but not straight privilege. Hillary Clinton has white privilege and straight privilege, but not male privilege. Bernie Sanders has white privilege, male privilege, and straight privilege, but not religious privilege. Analyzing things this way lets us understand more about why people are treated the way they are by society.

There’s a crisis among straight white males in this country, a sense of rage and despair that both Bernie and Trump are appealing to..."

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/6/4/1534404/-Intersectionality-Matters

[MADem]

4. That was a good little article--the discussion below was interesting, too. nt

[Chiquitita]

23. The term was coined by a Black woman law professor

"Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, an American civil rights advocate and leading scholar of critical race theory. She is a full professor at the UCLA School of Law and Columbia Law School, where she specializes in race and gender issues."

It's a way to understand social differences based on multiple factors of stratification, rather than just economic class. Google images and it will show you why it's a useful concept.

[jmg257]

24. Thanks for the follow-up info! (and MADem too!) nt

[bluestateguy]

2. Sigh.

Some people think the real world is a graduate school seminar.

[think]

3. From Daily Kos :

Intersectionality Matters

By Magdalen - Saturday Jun 04, 2016 · 11:43 AM EDT

Hillary mentioned the intersectional approach to progressive politics in her latest speech, and it’s the main reason many progressives prefer her to Bernie Sanders. But what is intersectionality and why is it better than Old Leftism, which fights for goals like high wages that affect all workers equally? Let’s go over some basics.

Intersectional analysis looks at the different axes of privilege that intersect to give each person their unique identity and the treatment they will receive from society. Glenn Greenwald, for example, has white privilege and male privilege, but not straight privilege. Hillary Clinton has white privilege and straight privilege, but not male privilege. Bernie Sanders has white privilege, male privilege, and straight privilege, but not religious privilege. Analyzing things this way lets us understand more about why people are treated the way they are by society.

There’s a crisis among straight white males in this country, a sense of rage and despair that both Bernie and Trump are appealing to. People experiencing that particular intersection show an increase in suicides lately. The anger and pain of this group of people are real, and just as valid and important as any other group’s pain. The question is how do we solve that white male anguish problem without rolling back the gains we’ve made for everyone else.

Read more:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/6/4/1534404/-Intersectionality-Matters

[David__77]

6. I think I'm more Old Left than New Left.

For instance, I'm gay, and while I have a personal community that includes gay and straight people, I don't have conscious membership in a gay community.

[liberal N proud]

5. So all the disruptions were over something that 95% of Americans know nothing about?

Or is this just the moving target on their grievances?

[oberliner]

7. Different people disrupted for different reasons

Some were chanting no more war, some no TPP, some anti-oligarchy, some mentioned Wikileaks, etc.

It is very reminiscent of the Nader phenomenon not too long ago.

[liberal N proud]

8. And we all know how the Nader thing worked out.

[oberliner]

10. Exactly

I wish Jill Stein and her supporters would take a moment to reflect on that.

[BobbyDrake]

19. "The goalposts have been moved so often they have wings and a jet engine now." 2016 primary adage

As true now as when I first saw it.

[longship]

9. But where were the "Hostess Twinkies matter" signs?

Which at least makes as much sense as "intersectionality matters".

Me thinks it is just crazy talk by crazy people. Call the guys in the white coats and take all these people to their own, personal rubber rooms where they can scream intersectionality to their hearts content, whatever that is. As I inferred, they might as well be screaming Hostess Twinkies.

Insane idiots!

[oberliner]

11. Are you currently a student at a 4-year college or university?

If you were you would be much more likely to know what intersectionality is than to know what a Hostess Twinkie is.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

12. i know what intersectionality matters means, and have been using intersectional on DU for a

long ass time. What i don't understand is what Bernie supporters are doing with those signs.

In a way HRC completely got won the intersectional communities (black women, POC lgbt's etc). So I get what the sign means but don't understand the sign in context.

[oberliner]

14. I was directing it to the person who mentioned the Hostess Twinkie

Just saying that "intersectionality" is a more commonly encountered word than "Twinkie" among college students today.

I agree with you that the sign doesn't really make a lot of sense in context.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

16. ok. sorry, i thought maybe you understood it in context. intersectional feminism and LGBT activism

is important to me, so i do know a bit about it. i just can't understand it in this context.

[Turin_C3PO]

22. Maybe they're

trying to include economic disadvantage into the meaning? That's my wild guess, I really don't know.

[longship]

13. No, I graduated in physics some decades ago.

And I long ago learned not to make shit up.

And I never heard of intersectionality before today. Sounds like some sort of post modernist term to me, a word whose sole purpose is to obscure meaning as to define it.

As a mathematically literate person I understand what an intersection is. But what the fuck is intersectionality? My OED is not helpful here, so it has to be relatively new.

[oberliner]

15. I hear ya

I was just saying that the term is super common these days among college students (and Twinkies aren't).

If you Google the term, you can spend an afternoon and evening reading articles about it.

I would not recommend such an endeavor.

[longship]

20. As I inferred. Likely post modernism.

Which has the sole purpose to obscure with arcane vocabulary and baffling illogic.

[brooklynite]

26. That's a ridiculous comment...

...you're in Philadelphia...it's all Tastykake here.

[longship]

27. Love it! Mea culpa! nt

[JaneyVee]

17. Hillary is the only candidate talking about intersectionality.

[NCTraveler]

18. They were letting us know they are aware of their privilege.

Good for them.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

21. ahh! now, i get it.

[forjusticethunders]

25. bahahahHAHAaa my sides

>bernouts
>intersectional
pick one and only one



i'm literally on the ground laughing

is there something worse than jumping the shark
because they just did it

intersectional bernouts
hah.