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“The critical race scholar who references postmodernism most explicitly in her work … is Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw, a founder of critical race Theory and the progenitor of the concept of intersectionality<\/em>. Intersectionality began as a heuristic – a tool that lets someone discover something for themselves – but has long been treated as a theory<\/a> and is now describes by Crenshaw as a ‘practice’. …<\/p>\n

She … uses the metaphor of a roadway intersection to examine the ways in which different forms of prejudice can ‘hit<\/a>‘ an individual with two or more marginalized identities<\/a>. … This … approach allowed for ever more categories of marginalized identity to be incorporated …, adding layer upon layer …<\/p>\n

[Her 1991 essay] ‘Mapping the Margins’ provides the means: openly advocating identity politics over liberal<\/a> universalism<\/a>, which had sought to remove the social significance of identity categories and treat people equally regardless of identity. …<\/p>\n

The number of axes of social division under intersectionality can be almost infinite – but they cannot be reduced to the individual<\/em><\/a>. (People often joke that the individual<\/a> is the logical endpoint of an intersectional approach that divides people into smaller and smaller groups – but this misunderstands the fundamental reliance on group<\/em> identity. Even if a person were a unique mix of marginalized identities … she would be understood through each and all of these group identities, with the details to be filled in by Theory. …). …<\/p>\n

However, there is nothing complex about the overarching idea of intersectionality … Nothing could be simpler. It does the same thing over and over again: look for the power<\/a> imbalances, bigotry, and biases that it presumes must be present and pick at them. It reduces everything<\/em> to one single variable, one single topic of conversation, one single focus and interpretation: prejudice … Theory … always assumes that, in every situation, some form of Theoretical prejudice exists …<\/p>\n

All this ‘sophistication’ keeps intersectionalists busy … under an overarching metanarrative of Social Justice<\/em>, which seeks to establish a caste system based on Theorized states of oppression. …<\/p>\n

[This] is markedly different from the activism<\/a> for universal human rights<\/a> that characterized the civil rights movements … [which] sought and seek to equalize opportunities by criminalizing discrimination, remedying disenfranchisement, and defeating bigotry by making prejudice on the grounds of immutable characteristics socially unacceptable. …<\/p>\n

Critical race Theory and intersectionality are characterized by a great deal of divisiveness, pessimism, and cynicism<\/a>. … [Its] hallmark paranoid mind-set, which assumes racism<\/a> is everywhere, always, just waiting to be found, is extremely unlikely to be helpful or healthy for those who adopt it. …”<\/p>\n

aus: Helen Pluckrose \/ James Lindsay: Cynical theories, Durham, NC: Pitchstone 2020, S.123-129.<\/p>\n

Abb.: Jim Chuchu, Mural, 2014, im Internet<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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“The critical race scholar who references postmodernism most explicitly in her work … is Kimberl\u00e9 Crenshaw, a founder of critical race Theory and the progenitor of the concept of intersectionality. Intersectionality began as a heuristic – a tool that lets someone discover something for themselves – but has long been treated as a theory and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3311"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3578,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions\/3578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.woydt.be\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}