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In reply to the discussion: If you are not intersectional, you are not a progressive. Period. End of discussion. Card revoked. [View all]RedWedge
(618 posts)25. It's the understanding that inequality happens in multiple dimensions.
Different social identities -- race, class, gender, etc. -- overlap and are targeted differently in systemic oppression. Feminism must understand that the challenges white women face can be different, in general, than those black women face; rich women are oppressed differently than poor women.
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If you are not intersectional, you are not a progressive. Period. End of discussion. Card revoked. [View all]
forjusticethunders
Apr 2017
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Sounds like you've jumped to conclusions that have nothing to do with the OP
emulatorloo
Apr 2017
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