What Is Intersectionality? Why is it important? | Get Smarter With Blair Imani

[@frankie3718]

Intersectionality is a great way to understand a persons experience. It doesn't have to divide people - people are already divided in the way it points out. It merely gives us a tool to examine that. Good video.

[@bowmanzz1]

Intersectionality. What a great word. People echo this in social justice circles, to unite against oppressions etc. Unfortunately, This a one dimentional label. a label system is a crude tool that doesn't capture the complexity of a person. Just because someone has certain features or attributes doesn't mean you can make assumptions about them. Everyone's story is different, and we should stop pigeonholing people into categories. People are more than their labels, and it's time we stop politicizing them in this way.

[@kasketbase8741]

I can imagine thousands of comments were deleted

[@theheartpart5]

Love the nuance in your description of Rosie The River!

[@miraculouslynada]

i could listen to you giving a history lecture all day! hope to see a video essay one day😆🔥🔥🔥

[@atriggeredsjw8532]

Even though she’s a complete bafoon?

[@naikyunyo]

You deserve the fame and love you receive. You’re a smart, confident, and all-around important figure in history in the making.

[@merriweatherpines]

You seem like a really sweet person, I was honestly taken aback by how kind your demeanor is. I think it's a really great thing to understand our advantages and disadvantages in society, intersectionality seems like something we should all be mindful of, I think you did a great job of explaining that. I really wish people wouldn't turn intersectionality into identity politics, it seems like it's dividing us even further, and at times people use it to bully others.

[@miraculouslynada]

absolutely loved this!!

[@lesliea.6440]

Love this video! Intersectionality can be used as a "theory" and "methodology" it is an essential tool to understanding almost everything ;)

[@Maciiirony]

Much love!! This video was so stellar! Thank you for educating

[@eriberry1sm]

Love this lesson! So pointed. Sharing with a group of students next week!! P.S. your Rosie the Riveter cosplay is I C O N I C

[@GoldenGirl0901]

Absolutely awesome!

[@shawnshawn6070]

Great job

[@d2197v]

I still dont fully understand. I do on a baseline but if I were to go in to depth, no way. Yet I have to speak about this topic in a few weeks to my team on how it has affected my life from being muiliracial. Ill keep doing more research.

[@wintertime987]

I'm pretty sure if you understand on a baseline you are good to go. You can say basically whatever you want, as intersectionality is subjective....

[@The_Catnip]

The baseline is c0mm8ni1sm. Everything else are labels.

[@eleniblue]

#Intersectionality is one of my favorite terms.

[@moisteeorteez]

A bisexual muslim... thats interesting

[@guaranteedreducedquality]

Pretty sure that would be enough to validate harsh punishments in Muslim countries.

[@mcegypt20]

Not uncommon

[@hifijohn]

She wouldn't survive 5 minutes in a Muslim country.

[@BoppityBoopy]

😅😅😅😅

[@tekkieman]

You are NOT a historian.

[@heavenly2k]

Okay random youtuber, the judge of who or who isn't a historian

[@flimflam6807]

@@heavenly2k I am declaring myself a historian. Dinosaurs existed until in the 1980s and World War II was fought between Peruvians and Aliens from Kepler19B.

[@atriggeredsjw8532]

@@heavenly2k You’re acting as if the bafoon who made this video isn’t some random KZbinr.

[@atriggeredsjw8532]

@@heavenly2k And by the way she in fact not a historian.

[@priscillaeyles3301]

Umm ok, evidence, links, references? On what basis do you expect us to believe you otherwise?

[@amateurahmed2205]

"I'm an author, educator and historian" 😂😂😂

[@atriggeredsjw8532]

Yeah she’s neither of those things lol

[@Thermo-vd1ot]

One day we will wake up from this nightmare.

[@fatemehasadi2562]

GUYS haram is always haram . you can't change it

[@toniarox]

The theory of intersectionality, at it's core, may have some validity. However, the number of ways we discriminate against one another really isn’t the issue. The issue is the sinfulness of the human heart. All sin separates us from God, and all sin must be atoned for. This is why Jesus died on the cross, to pay the penalty for our sin and to redeem a people unto Himself. All forms of discrimination and their intersectionality are the result of the fall of man into sin. No doubt discrimination will continue as long as sinful people reside upon the earth. Christians should acknowledge the problem of discrimination and work to counter it, but lasting change can only happen through the life-transforming power of Christ. Movements that seek to divide people along racial, gender, or class lines; that create designer victim groups; or that seek retribution through ever more autocratic policies are not truly benefiting society. Christians should be peacemakers working to unite people in the truth rather than divide people or stoke feelings of resentment.

[@adrianarodriguez7628]

this comment is a great example of how religion can often be used as a diversion. what "christians should be" doing is irrelevant. religions of all kinds have existed for millennia and yet people across the globe continue to be bullied, assaulted, exiled, and murdered every day because of discrimination and its perpetuation by the systems that have been put in place. intersectionality is not dividing anyone - we are ALREADY divided. intersectionality is simply bringing light to those divisions and showing how they can cause unique and complex experiences of discrimination. though we may never arrive at true justice and true peace in our society, we should still be aiming for it, and continuing the conversation on intersectionality is critical in the process.

[@ReunionMana]

take your zealotism and fanaticism somewhere else, this is not the place for that

[@m.shaheedaadam249]

Str8 up fine!

[@Kurio71]

It's not important

[@rukratos]

Gibberish.

[@thepeadair]

Intersectionality is a social theory which allows you to multiply the opportunities to claim oppression.

[@Jonkr413]

Your politics bore me

[@BahijaScott]

Islam is innocent from this Blair. If you really read the Quraan, you should know better about being a Muslim and queer. May Allah guide you.

[@prettylady6013]

This woman wears hijab for additional oppression points 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@atriggeredsjw8532]

You’re not making people smarter by parroting nonsense.

[@ghostknight2011]

A really extensive excuse to be miserable for free.