We seem to be on a seesaw, and I'm not sure we have enough people willing to get on it in the middle to even it out. I wrestled with critical race theory and intersectionality back in the 90s, before it moved from academia and got processed into memes for social media. There was some validity to it, I thought, but it was already becoming a hammer with which to bludgeon mostly well-meaning white female social workers, social work being one of the areas where it took off like wildfire. It's only gotten worse from there, as difficult and complex concepts got flattened and rendered meaningless at best and hateful at worst.
Yeah, not so long ago I was a little embarrassed to say "Transwomen aren't women," but I knew I was being dishonest, so I ditched it and went full-bore gender critical. There was much about it I didn't understand yet, about 5-6 years ago. I've been on board with annoying feminists with my feminism for much longer, about forty years :) Critical theory and intersectionality are, I think, small slices of a much larger pie - worth hearing out, they make some good points, but they shouldn't - especially 'intersectionality', which ultimately ends at the individual - be used to bully and intimidate others, as the woke are clearly wont to do. I'm done with the rank bigotry and discrimination that has become wokeness, and BTW, we ARE the very large Murky Middle of public debate - the woke AND the MAGAs together equal about 8%! But SJWs (whichever side), like chihuahuas, make the most noise ;)
And of the mountains of statistical data showing differing levels of heritable (genetic) traits among racial and ethnic groups, often ones vastly more important to society than skin color or athleticism? Is such knowledge and its pursuit supremacist, racist, or simply impolite? Asked in good faith by a non-tribalist (or a rabid one from a tribe with just one member).
We seem to be on a seesaw, and I'm not sure we have enough people willing to get on it in the middle to even it out. I wrestled with critical race theory and intersectionality back in the 90s, before it moved from academia and got processed into memes for social media. There was some validity to it, I thought, but it was already becoming a hammer with which to bludgeon mostly well-meaning white female social workers, social work being one of the areas where it took off like wildfire. It's only gotten worse from there, as difficult and complex concepts got flattened and rendered meaningless at best and hateful at worst.
Yeah, not so long ago I was a little embarrassed to say "Transwomen aren't women," but I knew I was being dishonest, so I ditched it and went full-bore gender critical. There was much about it I didn't understand yet, about 5-6 years ago. I've been on board with annoying feminists with my feminism for much longer, about forty years :) Critical theory and intersectionality are, I think, small slices of a much larger pie - worth hearing out, they make some good points, but they shouldn't - especially 'intersectionality', which ultimately ends at the individual - be used to bully and intimidate others, as the woke are clearly wont to do. I'm done with the rank bigotry and discrimination that has become wokeness, and BTW, we ARE the very large Murky Middle of public debate - the woke AND the MAGAs together equal about 8%! But SJWs (whichever side), like chihuahuas, make the most noise ;)
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And of the mountains of statistical data showing differing levels of heritable (genetic) traits among racial and ethnic groups, often ones vastly more important to society than skin color or athleticism? Is such knowledge and its pursuit supremacist, racist, or simply impolite? Asked in good faith by a non-tribalist (or a rabid one from a tribe with just one member).
I'm not quite sure what you mean?