The Latest Ism

In a video with Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson defined intersectionality as pathological denial of individual status, that all one is one's group affiliation. Shapiro defines intersectionality as society as a hierarchy of identity groups, especially those that are victimized by straight, white males. The more oppressed groups that you belong to, the highest your status, the more you are listened to and your words matter. White males have nothing to say that is important or correct, so they are to remain silent and be lectured. This Leftist model is anti-individual, anti-white, anti-heterosexual male, anti-Western, anti-conservative, anti-capitalist and anti-Christian. I cannot imagine an angrier, revenge-driven, unjustified, lie-embracing and cruel attack on Western people and their societies than projected by these radicals. Now that intersectionality has been defined, let us look at the notes I took on a 3/3/2018 video, entitled, "Is intersectionality a religion? The Q & A video was hosted by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose. These three liberal atheists were allied with right-wing religions people (The video may have been produced by PSU, College Republicans.). Helen noted that the term was coined by Kimberle' Crenshaw. Intersectionality is the intersection of marginalized identities that come together, coalescing into hierarchies of oppression. She denounces this doctrine as messy and contradictory, as each victim has status in several overlapping victim groups. Helen, a staunch gender biologist, denounces intersectionalists for claiming that race and gender are culturally constructed, not innate. These three are basically drawing a parallel between fanatical, fundamentalist religion and this ism with its radicalized true believers exporting it to the world. They accuse opponents of being various kinds of bigots, and this smear campaign of baseless accusations are unfalsifiable. James brings up their epistemology (standpoint epistemology): Where an individual is identified aa and is a member of one of the identified oppressed groups, they can only see the world from that subjective vantage point. White males, by contrast, they insist, can only see the world from their subjective locus, the oppressor group, but somehow the oppressed individual sees the white point of view but not the other way around. The more victim groups that the oppressed one belongs too, the wiser she is, but white males must shut up and be lecture and hear the truth from these victims. Intersectionalists, like other zealous, woke postmodernists, assert that there is no objective reality, no scientific truth or universality to serve as a moral guide. These woke believers regard political incorrectness as blasphemy and belonging to an oppressor group is the original social sin. In their born-again fervor, the intersectionalists attack loathed liberalism, the Modern concept that discussion, dialogue and intelligent conversation are informative and uplifting to all participants. The authoritarian intersectionalists demand silence, conformity, rapt obedience and acceptance of the speech content laid on the unwoke by the enlightened woke crowd that has religion. James refers to the rebranding of specious technical words as insidious as Trojan horse terms. The world inclusion seems liberal, tolerant and accepting, but that is not their aim at all--they are using it to apply a space with severely restricted free speech. That is no reform and is not just. Helen points out that intersectionality and identity politics are but critical theory that retains cultural constructs while looking at systems and hierarchies of power. There is no universality and no liberalism. We are losing our individuality, and we lose our shared humanity when all we are considered is being an avatar of our identity group memberships. James classifies intersectionality as opposed to hegemonic dominance or the ruling orthodoxy of white male patriarchy, to be defeated and deconstructed, make it a problem and then tear it down. I think these intersectionalists and critical race theory advocates are revolutionaries and nihilists, dangerous, destructive, resentful, totalitarian and cruel. They wish all Americans ill, and destroy whatever they touch. Nothing good grows out of the ism that they promote. They enforce speech conformity and thought conformity in the spaces that they now control in society, James notes, by policing the shape of the moral community by running dissenters out. The new Devil is hate and those that defy intersectionalists are labeled and demonized as haters to be attacked and repressed. Equity replaces reasonable, liberal, traditional goals of equality, by making all outcome fair by imposing equality of outcomes with strict quotas for all jobs and all levels of every organization. Equity is about making up for old wrongs by new attacks on former or current groups of oppressors. There is nothing innate--all traits and behaviors are learned and socially constructed within the linguistic community to which one was born. Biology denialism occurs here, obviously. Intersectionalists diagnose America as a matrix of oppression and all of society's discourses promote that complex system of injustice. Intersectionalism is a dangerous ideology, whose adherents share a rigid, ideological worldview, and island epistemology that those outside of their group or groups cannot understand them and have not right to criticize them because they are not woke insiders, so no valid arguments can be raised against them. This anti-reason, anti-logical, anti-evidence or critical argumentation leads insular thinking and inbred, erroneous, dogmatic thinking. James notes that intersectionalists want to invert not overthrow the pyramid of oppression, for now the many will oppress the few at the bottom. They are not about injustice resolution--they are about seizing power and exacting revenge on whites, males and all Westerners. A more wicked and cruel group of haters cannot be envisioned. These people are unfit to rule anywhere, and heaven protect us, should they come to rule America. Helen announces that their project in this Q & A is to waken and mobilize the silent majority to fight back against isms and their radical advocates pushing against that majority from the fringes. I agree that intersectionality is a manifestation of the neo-Marxist, postmodernist ism and mass movement now seeking to destroy America. They mean no one well, and these true believers are to be stopped and kept out of power before they destroy us all.