• RobbieGM@discuss.tchncs.de
    6·
    1 year ago

    This seems to assume that there’s a certain fixed amount of “bad shit” that must be placed on one minority or another. If I eliminated all police brutality (which in the US disproportionately is aimed at black people), does that somehow make things any worse for women?

      • RobbieGM@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        1 year ago

        Are you just not even making an attempt to understand my point? In this scenario, of course black women would benefit, as they’d experience no police brutality. My point is that this magical elimination of a racial inequality problem would not make a gender related issue (e.g. the wage gap) automatically worse somehow, which seemed to be Leylaa’s point if I’m understanding that correctly.

        • TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year ago

          They said it in a slightly incorrect way. It’s not like there’s an unaddressable amount of discrimination that gets shifted over. It’s that other forms of bigotry can fester in a movement if diverse voices are not part of the conversation. Intersectionality is about praxis: not just theory, but how movements practically function as well.