Julian SanchezThis is from Florida’s education commissioner, depressingly. Reflect for a moment on the incredible degree of intellectual insecurity it reveals.
People who are confident in the quality of their own arguments do not exhibit this terror of exposing students to thinkers they disagree with.
Also, FFS, if you do not even understand what “intersectionality” means, perhaps you should be taking the class rather than demanding it be banned.
Icevice@normative The only source on Intersectionality any conservative pundit ever needed is that video from Ben Shapiro. They all literally just quote Ben everytime they mention Intersectionality
John SheehanMy own rule is to never mention Ben Shapiro without adding the descriptive, "execreble." But hey, that's just me. 😎
Sujal Shah@normative I mean, you know he doesn’t actually care what the words mean, right?
The Febrile Muse@normative Do they just fantasize that it sounds "dirty?"
Creative! Queer!! Autistic!!!
BrewingContemplations@normative yes, this exactly
Voron@normative Oh I would bet they understand, they just don’t give a f&$k. They stawman, redefine and demonize.
Chris@normative This sort of re-definition is a direct response to the use of intersectionality as a defense of Critical Race Theory. When defending Critical Race Theory I often invoke intersectionality as a way to demonstrate the unfairness of its demonization.
By redefining intersectionality like this they create a false familiarity among those we seek to build understanding with.
David Weinberger@normative Well, I for one am glad to have learned that intersectionality is a ranking scale. Now everything makes sense! /s
Andrew Hinton@normative @dweinberger as a kid, the most scary scenarios I remember seeing on tv in movies/shows was inquisition-like scenes where ignorant & hateful people in power didn’t care to understand a defendant, only use them as a pawn in a power play … it’s so disturbing to realize how much of this has existed still in our society and has been further weaponized lately