No Longer Knowing Our Left From Our Right?

A most bizarre and unprecedented socio-ideological phenomenon is taking place in the world today.   Namely, that large swathes of the political far-Left have embraced a racial/cultural hierarchical doctrine as pathologically discriminatory as those racial ideologies associated with the most heinous movements of the far-Right.

I refer to the insidious political doctrine of intersectionality

How Did Intersectionality Begin and Evolve?

Ironically, intersectionality started out as an academic framework for understanding how overlapping social identities such as race, colour, class, gender, sexuality and level of ability combine to create unique and complex forms of discrimination and privilege. That remains its self-definition today

However it has now evolved to create a politically charged, pernicious and doctrinaire reverse-discrimination where those sections of society deemed the most oppressed or victimised must be unconditionally vindicated while those deemed the most privileged or powerful must be unequivocally disrespected and execrated. Truth and falsehood no longer matter. All that needs to be evaluated are degrees of perceived power and victimhood.

Hierarchical Anomalies

Far-Right movements are known for privileging Caucasians above other races and viewing men as innately superior to women. The rich are empowered while the poor are downtrodden.  Disability is often pitied or even scorned.

Far-Left advocates of intersectionality will therefore relegate rich, white, high-ability, heterosexual males to the very bottom of the “respect” heap while placing black/indigenous, lesbian/transgender women on a pedestal of infallibility.

What About Conflicting Hierarchical Claims

Far-Right movements will tend to discriminate more in matters of race than those of gender, Thus, white women would rank above black men in the hierarchical chain.

Far-Left intersectionalists, faced with the challenge of taking sides between, say, the claims of transgender ‘women’ seeking to compete against biological women at sports tournaments and the pushback of feminists against this, will side with the trans-women over the feminists. They........

© The Times of Israel (Blogs)