Kimberlé Crenshaw: Intersectionality and Gender Equality

[@kianiperera3244]

Crenshaw's findings give women and girls the language to thrive. Such an important real-world issue

[@InariiBels]

I. Am. Stunned. I never knew about 70-80% of all the things women of color had to deal with and I feel outraged --- wishing I could take back my years and find a way to be a better advocate and ally sooner in my life.

[@EGL2000]

Well, now is better than never. Take what you've learned and go out and learn more! Tell your friends!

[@picgsf]

Excellent and powerful speech...I just have one thing to add. In discussions surrounding intersectionality, the one intersection that is repeatedly missing is disability! Disability crosses all aspects of sexism, racism, misogyny, heteronormativity, but yet, continues to be hidden. Isn't it about time discussions on intersectionality include disability too?

[@DS-uh6ss]

You're right, and a few of us have started adding that to the discourse for all the reasons you've stated.

[@matthewmalpeli]

​@Rabbi Mamzer ben Amalek Did you notice that you were ignored here? That's because you and people like you have no power here regardless of the size of your testicles. It must terrify you, knowing that after so many centuries of dominance that in certain areas of discourse your opinion is unwelcome. Can't say I'm surprised really. Typical bible thumper. Nothing like your Jesus at all.

[@Mooretandk]

Sounds like a good research paper>

[@bradhamilton9038]

Define disability Paul Chappel. Subgroups?? Then more subgroups?? Blindness get more points than deafness?? Right arm more than left?? Deaf and Blind trumps Crohn's disease?? So Paulie my boy you see the slippery slope Cranshaw has erected!! Slippery with BS...not academic rigor!!

[@shalokshalom]

Yes. And also the species.

[@caitmurphy02]

"...So they no longer hold our visions of the possible hostage to the failures of our past." This is such a powerful, beautiful talk. So many sentences that I would love to go so much deeper on. Thank you Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw for all of your work and for sharing it with us.

[@secondarycontainment4727]

Failures of our past? ...you mean like how slavery failed?

[@joguestin]

6:58 "Intersectionality is not primarily about identity, it's about how structures make certain identities the consequence of, the vehicle for vulnerability."

[@conorpodonoghue]

Why do so many KZbin videos featuring Prof. Kimberlé Crenshaw have the comments turned off? It speaks volumes.

[@terrycools6731]

Because people are ignorant and post dumb comments full of hatred and nonsense

[@caminosdeljaguar4428]

Wow! Amazing! Incredibly happy i stumbled upon this video and woman. As a brown, Indigenous, Latino male there is so much i need to learn in order to truly love and fight alongside the women of our communities that are the center target of violence and injustice.

[@geraldinegoodin3926]

Once a woman learn she does need males approval, she can do just as well, it depends on the type work. I've watched some men useless in so type work until they learn it. So that statement have NO validity whatsoever.

[@danielabdelmalak3211]

Left speechless. Thank you for shining light on all these ares I did not know existed.

[@guyblaise3770]

Jessica Dubois 1 second ago I am French and author of "A Frenchman's perspective on American women...." I am stunned by Professor Kimberly Crenshaw thinking. Big discovery of intersectionality's theory. Bravo and well done professor!

[@alysiaduemler2221]

Heartbreaking, powerful, and brilliant, thank you so much.

[@virgenm.palermo1316]

Powerful address brings front and center what has been under the radar for so long and requires our action, Say Her Name!

[@jazminerhudson]

I'm so excited that the framework for this conservation has been laid. Thank you Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw.

[@RaxLakhani]

I'm sorry for being four years late in posting this comment... I was tranfixed by Kimberlé's logical argument for intersectionality and I regret missing her 2016 presentation in London' s Southbank Centre. My wife attended a few other events during the WOW London Festival that year but sadly, this particular talk didn't register on our radar. Fast Forward to today, and I've been hearing so much about the concept of proactive demarginalisation, particularly within the structural framework of the workplace and industry. Much of what Kimberlé is speaking about is finally being acknowledged as an accurate fact of reality. Patriarchy, white priveledge and a class-based societal structure (painfully prevalent here in the UK) can no longer be ignored or denied. Frustratingly, whilst we've started making some advancements in addressing the layers of marginalisation experienced by many people on a daily basis, there is a regressive force working to undermine any exploration of gender, race, age, sexuality their overlapping sunsets. "wokeness", "social justice", "untamed feminism", "playing the race card" are all words or phrases that have been weaponised over recent years to deny a legitimate voice to those of us who are trying to address structural biases that are deeply entrenched in our world. Absolutely LOVE the way that she has provided a road map as such, which can be used to navigate a route that leads to a better place.

[@gracemadrinan6522]

So incredibly well spoken and powerful. Thank you for this.

[@aikaterinimanaka3551]

Thank you for stepping up, talking and fighting.

[@LisaMgdlna]

I like her speech. What is missing for me is an analysis of the underlying factors of, for example, higher suspension rates for black students. Correlation does not necessarily imply causality. Of course, having such high disparities is most likely racism but if intersectional feminists want to be heard it would help to deepen the argumentation.

[@meriahbradley6994]

Anyone cringing at how late they are to the party in 2020? She was calling all this stuff out in 2016. She described Breonna's scenario exactly. It's chilling.

[@hihelloitsmo]

better late than never !

[@E_Ten]

It should be noted that in a country of 330 million, 20 million of which are black women, that a single black woman, literally the only one, dying at the hands of police in 2020 and her having national protests and statues raised is not a failure of intersectionality. It's an overcorrection. Making Kimberle Crenshaw's argument completely inapplicable to police related homicide in recent years. These ideas are not universal, and worthy of honest and serious criticsm.

[@streetwisepioneers4470]

@@E_Ten This emergence of intersectionality has been anticipated by mind sets that lean towards maintaining superstructure privilege through the inevitably evolution of automotive processes (4th industrial revolution) and with that comes the ability to enact the final solution. 😷💉 Or so they think... X MARKS THE SPOT! 🔬🌍💥

[@projectkordamye1361]

The best way to effectively address intersectionality is to get to the cores of the invalid and unfair roadblocks that wrongfully marginalized people face. 1-Arrogance 2-Toxic superficiality 3-Emotional immaturity 4-Defects in empathy and/or consideration of others. All valid problems involved in intersectionality are the result of these four factors having channels in cultures where they are encouraged through or enabled through or simply given a free pass.

[@pound7816]

intersectionality exists because its zealous proponents see it. In reality, its a ghost. It doesn't exist. However i can jow see how A narcissist's ego, imbued vice, driven by resentment and anger . And her elitist arrogance elevates her selfish opinion for irrefutable truth, society above nature,

[@pound7816]

The only reason this is a topic is because people like you see it, like JimmJones ecalted his cult to believe aliens will whisk the entire cultmoff to paradise in outer space . Same thing with this rubbish.

[@gborowme]

Thanks for shining the light in that blind areas​ of neglect

[@rubyclark1354]

this is very informative, and appreciated

[@dilmuratmahmut4653]

Yes, everybody has multiple identities. Yet, intersectionality should be more about how those multiple identities can create the conditions for a new level of discrimination.

[@DrCruel]

The value of intersectionality is as a means of empowering a Left fascist elite. By such means can groups be rewarded or punished, based on their utility to a socialist agenda. This strategy was part of the divide and conquer method of ruling the Imperial Russian Empire and the Bolshevik Empire that followed it, and has now been adopted to the needs of Left fascist factions in the US marooned by the collapse of Bolshevist Marxism. This is why Left fascists are so keen to promote racist and sexist hate, discrimination, conflict and, above all, separation ("a salad rather than a melting pot") in higher education, and more recently, in the elementary schools.

[@wakeupfool7734]

I put this talk, in written form, on my vegetable garden and wow did they grow!

[@DS-uh6ss]

More and more, I'm convinced that an intersectional approach is necessary for the next wave of feminism on which we're embarking. Now that we are increasingly defining gender as a fluid state, and considering disability as an important element, intersectionality is an important tool for expanding focus, and for not (inadvertently) silencing. Our society is in a state of constant change and development, and being able to, as Dr. Crenshaw puts it, "heighten our capacity, to see the limitations...," will allow feminism to work under a variety of circumstances. We can be unified without being erased, or without marginalizing. I'm also questioning how things are effected regionally. A Jewish-Mexican woman in Los Angeles will experience different discriminations/empowerments than she would in Tulsa or Boston or Orlando. Blackness means different things in urban, suburban, and rural areas, North and South. Another thing to consider is what point markers of "Otherness" are recognized. Americans usually see a person's blackness/gender immediately, and respond to it, often long before there is any personal interaction, sometimes even before that person is physically present. But other "Otherness" can be harder for people to define... and people are ultra-fixated on defining things. How many times have we heard "You don't look ___!" or "What are you, anyway?" How many times have we heard people express rage, or the feeling of being "tricked" by someone who initially read as white, or as one binary gender to them? Being aware of these shifts of experience can only help us understand the ways we're defining and responding to other citizens, to each other. And then, please please please, it might help decrease the violence and aggression on every level.

[@LeonieZurakowsky]

Feminism wants to abolish gender stereotypes, not promote yet more boxes like the bogus 'gender fluidity' one. We are talking about the fairness of all people regardless of sex, being able to wear and present however they want to. Identitarians would like to create more boxes and make sex stereotypes the norm (boys like blue, girls like pink) when these things are just personality traits, not other sexes. Unfortunately it's always been the case that anyone who flies against the norm will be singled out. Feminism hopes to get rid of these notions. Everyone is born in the right body.

[@facts2666]

​@@LeonieZurakowsky I think ppl need to stop finding labels and just start funding and improving and maintaining schools and wildlife, investing resources and stocks in poorer areas putting economic growth on hold so that poorer areas and people can reach a stable financial state and then building go on to building the economy but after covid when things are cooled down though

[@latonyawright3312]

love love love!!! eyes wide open! THANK YOU WE NEED YOU!!

[@ibrahimrichardkamara2829]

Yah

[@dianerose9759]

When will we move beyond academic discussions and move to cultivate our own internal and external systems to mitigate this? I’m ready! You?

[@Anna-st5dm]

It starts with you.

[@ishattaghamil1783]

Heartening to see disabled people given a platform. So inclusive!

[@papusbarry8460]

Hello, miss Crenshaw! Thank you for this great speech on Intersectionality. Can you please help me with how to apply the intersectionality of vulnerability for children? (children here as vulnerable population). Thank you!

[@teranloeppke5616]

Wow. I am so thankful I saw this!! Am designing a diversity covenant small group experience around intersectionality (spell checker not allowing word, ha ha ha) and now I just want Kimberle Crenshaw to come speak to our church--well to everyone. Kemberle thank you for so clearly articulating this I am a better person because of you.

[@TheGreenHeartofItaly-fl3wv]

I thought Derrick Bell described "intersectionality" in his 1973 book "Race, Racism, and American Law", as one of the components of CRT.

[@carlaa3416]

Ms.Crenshaw, you just the right person to tackle the issue of intersectionality. I love you

[@gitmehere1]

How could she tackled the issue of intersectionality when intersectionality is just a term of something that really does not exist? Also she made up the term. So if it actually did exist it goes without saying that she would be the person to tackle it. But for you to believe in intersectionality and to make that comment I believe you might be *****. You should read or listen to Thomas Sowell.

[@cristinapereira8093]

Good afternoon, I'm researching about Prof. Kymberley and I would like to know, could you please send me any material I present on intersectionality, thank you Cristina Mato Grosso

[@avanidhar203]

do read Kimberlé Crenshaw- Mapping the margins: Intersectionality, identity politics and violence , Patricia Hill Collins- black feminist theory

[@loveisanopendoor3532]

Another really good one is bell hooks ain't I a woman and Rene-Lodges why I'm no longer talking to white people about race,

[@yeahnooo7036]

Anyone know where I can get a transcript of this talk? Please and thank you!

[@svalbard01]

Just below the bottom right corner of the video, on the same row as thumbs up, thumbs down, share etc., click the three dots. Click open transcript. Then just copy:)

[@graciewebbcooks]

wow its crazy watching this now, her ending points speak for the world right now. to not let their deaths happen in silence. blm 2020

[@ReunionMana]

Yeah, the same thing as is happening now in the U.S. has been happening since the beginning for black people and people of color, it's only exacerbated and made more important because of COVID-19 because the struggle against race issues and racism only got harder as soon as the economy took a massive dump and everyone started getting evicted--minorities like black people and other people of color lost their jobs first, got evicted first, so on and so forth.

[@bademoxy]

​@@ReunionMana "socialism is the answer" ? yep. take one hard look at Venezuela where the inflation rate passed 1500% , a quarter of the population fled, while those who stayed are forced into supporting the Leftist regime in order to qualify for emergency food aid .Welcome to Soviet lifestyle , where you line up for blocks in front of half empty stores and any speech critical of socialism earns you a prison camp.

[@rosesmith1410]

This is happening in the picking of courtroom jurors as well

[@commoncure3335]

James Lindsay sent me here

[@HeortirtheWoodwarden]

She's the final boss of wokeness

[@DrCruel]

Every Left fascist faction needs a fuhrer.

[@HeortirtheWoodwarden]

@@dannymartin9170 She basically invented this intersectionality thing.

[@peterbills4129]

@@HeortirtheWoodwarden She stole the idea of identity politics from the Combahee River Collective statement of 1977.

[@afterhourscounseling-donsh6772]

"Say their name" is useless if you don't get into the lives and communities where these problems exist. Acting like you care and really doing the heavy lifting to show you care is the real challenge. Too much hyperbole and too little substance. I hate it when the academic and political elites use the stories of victims to increase their money and power, but the communities that need help never receive it. The intersectionality of the victim and the elite , power and poverty, and nothing changes, except the elites get more money and more power.

[@dmize2839]

Well said. It's a bunch of hot gas and b******* with nothing to back it.

[@quirky-catholic-girl]

I had to watch this in class and it was the most painful half an hour of my whole school career.

[@rachelnesheim1104]

Was it painful for you to realize that you experience no discrimination? While others are experiencing multiple forms of marginalization on multiple axes such as social, political, and cultural? If so, wow.. what an excrutiating life you endure.

[@michkanotmishka]

there's still time for you to delete this; you're embarrassing yourself luv xxx

[@knightsolaire193]

@@rachelnesheim1104 Please spare me. That's life sweetheart. It's not easy. It's not supposed to be easy. If you are not experiencing opposition in one way or another then you're clearly not living or have a very sheltered life.

[@rachelnesheim1104]

@@knightsolaire193 we're talking about systemic racism and gender discrimination. not "hardships"

[@facts2666]

​@@rachelnesheim1104 no, no we're talking about hardships there's a lot of grey areas in someone's life you can be white, male straight and still be poor and working 15 hrs a day yet u've never experienced racist remarks or gender discrimination does that make your life easier than Lily Singh's.

[@johnwade1095]

I think Kemi Badenoch said it better.

[@teresaw7500]

Powerful speech. Thank you so much!!

[@dmize2839]

Most powerfully stupid crap ever! Very powerful.

[@stephengaddis9791]

I am a supervisor at a local wholesale milk delivery company. In the route sales department, we hired one woman, who we are not sure will continue with us. Milk is heavy, and it would seem most females would rather apply to work in our office. Our route sales employees are around 85% white males, 15% black males. Our plant is 90% black males and some females. Our office is 90% women. Is this intersectionality? If you're not sure, I would refer you to our HR lady, who is a black woman, or any other of our office women, or our owner CEO, who is a woman. You folks are severely deceived.

[@aztekenen1]

@@kaleyjohnson2038 Mr.Gaddis seems to be a man who hires people based on what suits them and what their skillsets are. he does not seem to prioritize skin color as being a determining factor, because that means they might not be qualified, and it's also very racist. be like Mr.Gaddis.

[@1elitegeek]

what does this have to do with intersectionality or any of the things Crenshaw was talking about? if the black women at your company found it harder to get promoted while white women found it easy that might be an issue of intersectionality because you have two systems of discrimination at play: racism and gender discrimination (women are promoted less than men) please try harder next time to actually understand the argument

[@mamsinenzinane8626]

I call the my name and the name of my colleagues who faced it just in my presents.

[@jayk5764]

Intersectionality is mostly about getting complaints in line so that they can be addressed in order of severity, however each identity group thinks theirs are the most severe. Its about fixing the problem of having so many groups talking at the same time where no one is listening, if only they can talk in one unified voice. Taking all these identity groups and forming another identity group "intersectional feminists" that would include all these groups is a tough sell. It works with Nationality, because you can see your Nation State.

[@ChanellJWilson]

yes!

[@Manhattanite1]

Brilliant & powerful. At last: I get it. Thanks.

[@emsmour4767]

So important this is fantastic im glad i found this

[@brhino7575]

Don't be a racist. Love each other

[@ryr1974]

This was a way helpful discussion for me. I was disappointed that she fails to see that there is structural abuse of the women in the Daniel H. case where these women where vulnerable to police coercion to testify as they did.

[@jedichild6815]

Thank you !!!

[@dubbelkastrull]

18:05 bookmark

[@asando10]

7:15 great elaboration on what intersectionality represents since their are misconceptions about what the term actually means atleast for other people how you state it. Goes to show how without accurate understanding people can judge these ideas negatively as does Ben Shapiro when describing how people want to see how many ways they feel oppressed just to say they are oppressed which is not the case

[@pascaleo3615]

This is so powerful 😢

[@adamchandler8508]

Powerful presentation with some very important insights and ideas.

[@violetwrath5173]

Thank you

[@0532phillipjoy]

Fantastic. Totally stumped why anyone would have a problem with intersectionality, call it Marxist ans other derogatory terms. I guess they must be part of the establishment.

[@bademoxy]

the term "Marxist" is derogatorily used because as an ideology, it's based on nihilism, resentment and jealousy, spawning communist movements which killed 3 times more people than the Nazi(National Socialists)did. Critical Race Theory IS Marxist based, particularly in the insane belief that all humans are born equal in all capacities, thus "different outcomes are only due to systemic/societal conditions". The stupidity is strong with this one....

[@irisharvey5455]

I commit to 'say her name.'

[@truthseeker3397]

#thomas sowell

[@SabrinaGarland]

Brilliant!!

[@assiegatsheni8668]

bahlali base hawadi abenza i SOWK 305 nikhona kodwa?

[@thepoliticalcollective5580]

I am shouting ...Deborah Danner

[@barbaracorsini8731]

Thank you for this excellent speech, very touching.

[@rburtonbrooks6397]

An amazing video and the message necessary for all!

[@PuddinPopsJohnson]

I never understood this term until I saw this video. NOW this term is just relabeling the VIN Diagram, which graphically illustrates how and the extent that multiple groupings can overlap. Of course to be a group, there must be criterion and then for convivence a "Label" She is just reinventing the wheel. all of this has be around for years and is MUCH clearer than her description and talk about a poor non -descriptive "Label" it has been called the degree of "overlapping" groups for years. But like many professors, instead of teaching clearly, they wish to make a name for themselves by "inventing" just another case here. I'm not saying the concept is invalid, the VIN diagram proves that, and we use it to find items of multiple criterion which is a good thing. The groups and their criterion is the key and everything can have multiple characteristics, the question is who is making the groups? why? and what is the purpose or objective of the search or optimization. The person above who suggested "Disabilities" as a group is a good example of another group Label, (what is the criterion to belong to that group) and one can also belong to other groups, ie gender, race, number of legs, 40-45 year-olds, etc) so the VIN can show the degree of overlap of these groups (typically represented by a circle or oval for understanding and comprehension) The what is the purpose or criterion that one is looking for as this determines the degree of overlap of the circles or as I think she is defining intersectionality. Any good professor could define a term, (which I have not seen) because defining with examples is not acceptable it one wishes to have a conversation with understanding. When each is allowed to define a term as they wish, there is no communication as there is no message understood, just a bunch of words uttered resulting in confusion and misunderstanding.

[@shalokshalom]

She coined the term in 1989 and the Venn diagram (that you most likely mean) is much more generic, intersectionality is purely describing forms of discrimination.

[@thx1136]

Counterpoint: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5y2gXdqfLesj9ksi=C_igmtLR59L9h363

[@peterbills4129]

Someone in the know

[@Lordfinessse]

Indeed, females need to receive better treatment than what they currently receive from men, and from each other, even within the same race group, please. At the same time, please let us treat males better, and not demonise the entire population due to the actions of the minority. Let us please change the court system so that it does not disadvantage even the responsible fathers, while it rewards even irresponsible mothers. Basically, humans need to be kinder to each other and treat each injustice on a case by case basis, rather than sweeping statements. Also, let us not ignore personal responsibility for decent behaviour, lest we encourage those who previously conducted themselves with respect to adopt the toxic behaviors of the supposedly oppressed for the sake of equity. I can imagine seeing some white women beginning to adopt the antisocial behaviour of some black women so their rates of being expelled from schools, for example, begin to match up, for the sake of equity, and so on... Let us please give up this victimhood contest that so many are eagerly adopting, racking up victim points amounting to that person's right to have a voice.

[@ReunionMana]

Intersectionality and all forms of feminism (besides separatism) mean to make all people equal, not just black women, lgbtqia+ people, or the disabled. The Combahee River Collective Statement explains this as so. As does Emma Watson when she became a spokesperson for HeForShe in 2014, a feminist, global solidarity movement for gender equality which specifically seeks to extend feminism to men in order to strength its impact on society for the good of everyone kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZzNiGyGj6eFnM0&ab_channel=UnitedNations

[@mamsinenzinane8626]

Mamsi ,Zola,Thabile, Clarah, Daphney, Mampho, Siphokazi, Nocwaka, Mandisa, Thembakazi there are more Someone was calling them abuse them infront of people. He has a wife, but she is quite.

[@rockfieldlangley1955]

The problem is environmental problems shared by both women of color and men of color don't have the same outcome. These are statistics we can look at. Her ideas infer a claim that any effort directed at problems which more dramatically impact men of a minority group would inherently be immoral because of the likely hood that the effort would enforce and/or strengthen patriarchy.

[@rockfieldlangley1955]

Though she does make a strong claim for the unidentified needs particular to women of minority groups.

[@Rebazar001]

If you don’t get a job it’s usually because you aren’t good enough. If you need a law suit to get a job you are the sort of person no one wants to hire anyway. This concept of intersectionality intersects well with ego and low self esteem. Get over yourself and compete with your competence.

[@facts2666]

you mean improve on your competence other than that great analogy sir

[@violetchikuni4757]

I wonder what is a world view of intersectionality only a Biblical world view is coherent to table this issues

[@davidsummers4820]

Sorry for all the questions. I'm simply interested in the idea but perplexed by it. At the end of the speech, Crenshaw mentions several women (Mitchell and McKenna). She describes them primarily as "black women" as if these two aspects of their identity were the factors contributing to their tragic deaths. But they were also mentally ill. And the police all over this country flat out suck handling the mentally ill. So I wonder: how does one parse the cause for these tragedies? Are these cases of intersectional violence or, in fact, does the state, across race and gender lines, harm the mentally ill? To answer that requires a lot of statistical analysis absent in the speech.

[@maroonculture]

David Summers prevalent ableism in society means that disabilities, including mental illness are aspects that factor into intersectionality as they constitute as marginalised characteristics. So, as you said, the police suck at handling the mentally ill, so yes this definitely contributed to their fates along with the fact that they were black women who were poor/low income. The whole concept of intersectionality is being able to look multiple avenues of oppression and identifying how they overlap and how some people are affected by two or more of those avenues. Hope that all makes sense

[@jon123xyz]

DT - you are guessing - you may be right or wrong but you are only guessing

[@1elitegeek]

As you say the police are terrible at treating the mentally ill and arguably make matters worse, however, the real issue is that these women have little recourse when it comes to receiving justice or recognition for their deaths *because* they are Black women, if they were white (or Black men) social media would be all over it, because they are Black women perpetrators get fewer sentences and these women die in silence - that's the point

[@stephenrrwilson]

started watching this to prepare for an exam and tears are just streaming down my face. SMH!!!!

[@ericrobinson7184]

Masterpiece of philosophical deconstruction of unlawful systematic bias, that floats the status quo on a raft while indifference allows the rest to drown. She gets hugs and kisses from from my school of Earth, with her regal smile to boot. I notice that the anti-commenters on this lecture are those who don't read law books and so have no ability to dissect logic or reason, and hold their own opinions hostage to willful ignorance.

[@3ertin]

What about the 50 shades of grey between Black and White?

[@ibrahimrichardkamara2829]

This is explicit, I know it now better than ever.

[@arinag-o599]

great woman!

[@e.1220]

#BanCRAP

[@davidsummers4820]

Very happy to hear Crenshaw rearticulate her initial def. of intersectionality at kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y3W6ZXuCnL6DoqM. So much on youtube co-opts and commodifies it.

[@deborahmarinelli9277]

Her distorted view of the world is harming generations of people. No one should hear to any word she’s uttering. What this women is saying absolute crazy.

[@mathmusic1490]

Here is her 'great' idea of 1989: "Crenshaw introduced the theory of intersectionality in 1989 in her paper written for the University of Chicago Legal Forum, "Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics". The main argument of this black feminist paper is that the experience of being a black woman cannot be understood in terms of being black and of being a woman considered independently, but must include the interactions between the two, which frequently reinforce each other. Not very deep, huh? All we need to say is that a black woman may be discriminated against both for being black and feminine, and the two discriminations can interact and reinforce each other. I.E. We can't 'add' being black to being a woman and just say that person is vulnerable to two types of discrimination: No. Together, these two traits open up for intolerant others MORE than that: An even stronger discrimination than given to one who is black summed with that given to one who is female! End of her famous paper. Not physics is it? Or engineering? Or mathematics, huh?

[@TheGreenHeartofItaly-fl3wv]

I thought Derrick Bell described "intersectionality" in his 1973 book "Race, Racism, and American Law". It's one of the components of CRT. But at it's heart, this is just as fancy of a language trick as can be mustered to justify a large group of failed individuals even in the presence of tremendous opportunity. They are simply low achievers who want a bigger piece of the pie.

[@mamsinenzinane8626]

It a great issue, because even the women they convince us & say be quite be quite God will fight for you women are facing all kinds of abuses in our societies and even in the house of God.

[@julenapa2043]

I love this woman, she's soo cool

[@ralphmouth6943]

If Emma could do the same work as a black man or white man on the work floor, she'd be hired today.

[@bigdawg111]

Charismatic speaker... Divisive and untrue message. The death of the individual, truly create disunity.

[@philmole1209]

Actually the opposite of divisive.

[@johnstewart7025]

About half-way through she complains that there has been such a national focus on the failure of black men to take care of their children. She asks why there hasn't been a focus on better pay for black women and affordable child care because then the women would be better able to take care of the kids without the men. However, it shouldn't be an either/or situation. The law should promote equal pay for equal work, while at the same time encouraging men and women to commit to raising their children together.

[@chadmeyer9500]

Show me "equal work" and I'll show you two people trying to or or forced to be equally inefficient and unproductive. And if the "law should promote equal pay for equal work", that means every government employee, from janitor to senator, should be paid equally. But they're not because government JUDGES them to be doing jobs of unequal IMPORTANCE. Even though both are "necessary". Of course most people work at their job and at home WITHOUT someone to clean up after them. But yet janitors are overwhelmingly PUBLIC employees cleaning up after "public servants" who are above taking out the trash.

[@arthurallenbrown1305]

There are some on the extreme far left fringes that want the children to raise themselves

[@karensimental2279]

Also statistics show that children who grow up with their father are healthier and better off. Men matter just like women.

[@hectichero321]

Chad Meyer nice job taking down that strawman

[@naturallybillie55]

or everyone could be responsible, use birth control or quit screwing. that does not address victims of abuse, that is where abortion comes into the picture. and before someone starts screaming about the Bible and that fairytale. stop. think priests, Jim and Tammy etc. etc. etc.

[@honeybun777]

yo someone summarize this for me i gotta pass my class LMFAO

[@thandiwemathibela2685]

Same 😂😭😭😭

[@michaellns2860]

We're all gods children. Very good history lesson. Have my own Business not a victim. In the car business Ebony is a black American woman and a top sales women. Renard is a black American male. And also the number one salesman in Tampa Florida. Both are making 6 figures. Welcome to the 2021 century. Look inward for the truth. You won't find it looking out side of your self❤

[@discoverytree3261]

Oppression and discrimination are not the only reasons for the differences in outcomes between groups. This is very reductionist thinking. There are many variables at play and must be looked at as the complex situations that they are. Remember correlation does not equal causality. I don`t want to be treated a s a victim or have assumptions made about me based on my group status thank you very much. Let`s deconstruct intersectionality!

[@arthurallenbrown1305]

Ti Perspective Keep up the good work and remember it's hard to fight with the simple people

[@PuddinPopsJohnson]

Well said, see my note on the VIN diagram. What is the degree of overlap of group labels means nothing, it is the (singular or multiple) criterion that is shared by multiple groups that she is looking for, which would then help to see if the groups were properly formed to start.

[@discoverytree3261]

As to suspensions and expulsions, what was the reason for them? Were the black kids breaking more rules? It`s not necessarily discrimination. Again, probably a complex issues. Not just oppression...

[@joshuapray]

Are you really preferring to believe that black girls "break more rules" at a rate of 53 to 1 (or 0)? That doesn't seem fishy to you at all?

[@hihelloitsmo]

In a racist society, it always about race.

[@discoverytree3261]

@@hihelloitsmo Racist compared to where? Western societies are among the least racist, sexist and homophobic in the world. Where is this non-racist perfect Shangri la?

[@hihelloitsmo]

@@discoverytree3261 the current paradigm we live in is built upon colonisation and oppression through institutional and internalized racist rhetoric ??? that racism

[@discoverytree3261]

@@hihelloitsmo I didn"t say racism wasn't involved, rather that it is a complex issue with potentially many variables at play. Looking at any social problem from a one dimensional lens is reductionist and inaccurate. Our society has come a long way since the civil rights movement and continues to make progress towards equality for everyone.

[@mattbasford6299]

People love being a victim of something.

[@mbrennan7517]

Lol, no. This is literally people trying to address and end their victim hood. Dummy

[@mattbasford6299]

@@mbrennan7517 glad you feel like calling someone a name emphasizes your point. You sound like Donald Trump

[@mbrennan7517]

@@mattbasford6299 and?

[@mattbasford6299]

@@mbrennan7517 I suppose you learned that from him. That's his tactic. If someone disagrees with you, call them a name.

[@mbrennan7517]

@@mattbasford6299 I mean man, see a leopard call it a leopard. You continued confirm my original assessment in every comment. It is what it is

[@ericrobinson7184]

On the face of this, it peers into the divergence of social IQ's, but then she pulls you into the womb of hysteria, and makes you look for the tunnel of light out of the madness. I am Earth. U are a Truth-teller. Tell me More.

[@123axel123]

So why did Obama not invite women for his black brothers event?

[@arthurallenbrown1305]

A photo identification for voting would be part of teaching some people responsibility

[@walterbeckmann825]

Very interesting, but can you explain to me, why you fight racisim by seperating races and by generalizing behaviour according to race? All black Woman are like this, all white women are like that? I don't know.

[@amberali9248]

It's not about separating the races at all. The fact of the matter is that white women aren't inclusive to the struggles of black women and that is why they had to branch out and create their own movement.

[@Caliphenom120]

Still donnt answer the question of separation of races and likening a certain behavioral complex tk them

[@davidsummers4820]

I take issue with Crenshaw's criticism of My Brother's Keeper. She's right that young black women also grow up in the neighborhoods that young black men grow up in. But, despite that, young black women constitute 65% of black student enrollment in colleges www.jbhe.com/news_views/51_gendergap_universities.html. Obama responded to the intersectional crisis we see in college admissions practices. Black/ Men. I don't mean to sound crazy, but among white students there is a similar gender disparity. As black women had it rough in regards to suffrage; young black men have it rough in regards to post secondary ed.

[@ReunionMana]

Intersectionality (and all forms of feminism besides any form of separatism) are concerned chiefly with making all people equal and addressing the struggles of all people, not just women, women of color, lgbtqia+ people, or the disabled--it's for the benefit of EVERYONE in society, including black men. The Combahee River Collective Statement explains how this is so: "We struggle together with Black men against racism, while we also struggle with Black men about sexism."

[@michaelhopek2286]

Jabberwocky

[@d4rrylexmachina]

What about the names of the victims of these dead criminals

[@Strimbles]

Double victimhood 😂😂

[@jot1255]

None of this made any sense.

[@Ben-ew9eu]

You are not allowed to criticize our new intersectional overlords. Your comment will probably be deleted soon

[@ginabeavers2625]

Are you a Black woman or girl?

[@adrianmercuri8956]

What a load of overly complicated nonsense!

[@peru1384]

Very powerful verbal diarrhoea. Had to stop listening. If she thinks that she is so discriminated against now how com she is standing there allowed to talk? People, this nonsense leads to other form of discrimination. We have been trying for so many years to get rid of discrimination and this lady is just on the way to put us right back to the dark ages.

[@kujo5998]

In summary: How much victim are you? Are you non-white? (2x victim) Are you disabled? (2x victim) Are you LGBTetc ? (2x victim) Etc Etc Etc Then you get to add up all your victim cards, and your multiplier determines how much you’ll get for x funding. How good of a chance you’ll have at getting x job. How likely you’ll be to get enrollment at x colleges. How much attention and weight your thoughts, comments, and ideas will be given. And on, and on…. It wants to boil people down to a few of their attributes, then give them official “victim status” JUST based on these pre-selected attributes. It couldn’t BE more disgusting. I wonder where all the dissenting comments are KZbin? Or should I say North Korea? Because thats who KZbin has modeled their corporate policies after. Censorship. Censorship has become the rule. Not the exception to the rule… ALSO disgusting.

[@a100.3]

You... kind of got it. Except the last parts though. Get educated more.

[@lenasophiahuber8922]

some should double check if their Information is a 100% right... the case of Daniel Holzclaw is very controversial