Angela Davis on Intersectional Feminism

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[@nikolademitri731]

I love the way she speaks as much as what she says, as weird as that may be to say.. There’s just something about her inflection and pacing and tone that really adds to the impact of her words, at least for me. All that aside, yeah, fantastic message. I wish Davis’s take of feminism was the mainstream perspective. Sure, we hear a lot of talk of intersectionality now days, but I feel like the language has been taken up in mainstream/bourgeois feminism, without actually understanding it, and definitely without a class/economic/Marxist dimension.

[@oooright]

this is my worry too, it's been coopted by bourgeois feminism and lost its radical implications :(

[@jesusislordsavior6343]

@@oooright
Don't you think that most working-class folks (especially in America!) aspire to be 'bourgeois'? Haven't you noticed how the likes of Bernie Sanders are appealing to the 'middle' class'------------which is whatever one wishes it to be? What is the essence of 'bourgeois ideology', except that having a 'nice life' is the very purpose of human existence? And the vision of that 'nice life' includes acquisition of property, regular vacations, and secure retirement (foreign concepts to some of us).
But JESUS said,
(Luke 12:15) '.....Beware, and be on your guard against every form of greed, for not even when one has an abundance does his life consists of his possessions.'
Now I happen to know quite a few people from the PRC (so-called 'communist' China). I have seen no group more solidly 'bourgeois' in outlook. Evidently Mao's marxist-tinged materialism and Cultural Revolution were not able to dislodge from them their Chinese culture and their 'bourgeois' materialistic instincts.
If you want 'radical', consider this verse from the New Testament:
(Galatians 3:28) 'There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is NEITHER MALE NOR FEMALE; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.' (caps mine)

[@oooright]

​@@jesusislordsavior6343 Jesus was a proto-Marxist. “It’s easier for a camel to walk through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter Heaven"; “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are the meek, for they shall possess the earth”. Jesus believed that wealth inequality was ungodly and America is one of the most unequal countries on earth with staggering poverty rates in spite of the immense wealth the capitalist class sits on. Oh and Bernie Sanders isn't a leftist he's a liberal imperialist

[@jesusislordsavior6343]

+Nikola Demitri
It's partly a generational thing, that elegant delivery. In order to be accepted as intellectuals in a white-dominated society, black people had to cultivate conspicuous excellence in speech.
The delivery sounds aristocratic, even though she, as a former communist stalwart and current practitioner of identity politics, has nothing to say to me personally.
Oppression of women by men is rooted in the Fall, mankind's conscious rebellion against God. As soon as the man and the woman had sinned, they began to blame one another rather than taking personal responsibility, and the 'war of the sexes' was ignited. Scripture is explicit:
(Genesis 3:16) 'To the woman He said: 'I will greatly multiply your pain in childbirth, in pain you will bring forth children; yet your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.'
However the purpose of Christ is to regenerate what was destroyed or maimed by the Fall, including gender relations. One can see with what dignity Jesus treated women in His interactions with them, and how in the early Church opportunities for women's ministry began to expand. The conclusion of the matter, the ideal, is that in Christ there is 'neither male nor female'. The fact that many churches have fallen far short of the ideal does NOT invalidate it in any way.

[@jesusislordsavior6343]

+@@oooright
Your initial remark is unsupportable and woefully misguided. Jesus claimed to be GOD, and that (according to the only detailed accounts which we have of His earthly life) is why Jewish religious authorities sought occasion to kill Him. The charge of 'blasphemy' was the bedrock of their argument, which the Romans could not understand; nevertheless they went along for reasons of political expediency.
Now Jesus had said (John 8:23-24), 'You are from below; I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world. Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I AM, you will die in your sins.' The expression,
'I AM', was known to every observant Jew as an expression of Divinity. His claim was unmistakable and utterly scandalous.
Now the fact (and I do say 'fact') of His Resurrection makes His claim sound rather reasonable after all, if one cares to believe the evidence.
Furthermore Jesus NEVER counseled political revolution. Many Jews at the time hoped in just that, a political Messiah who would turf out the Roman oppressors and restore Judea to the Jews. They were DISAPPOINTED in His ministry because it did not produce the desired results.
(Never mind that He had healed thousands of their infirmities, meeting their need in a PRACTICAL way.) Remember His saying, give unto Caesar what belongs to Caesar, and to God what belongs to God.
Now you are right to echo the Bible's condemnation of the irresponsible
rich. That line of thought is present throughout Scripture, whether implicitly-------------------
(Micah 6:8) 'He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?'
OR explicitly-----------------------
(James 5:1-2) 'Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries which are coming upon you. Your riches have rotted, and your garments have become moth-eaten......'
The 'eye of the needle' saying has to do with the necessity of humbling oneself. After all it is the poor IN SPIRIT (the humble) who are blessed, rather than those who are economically marginalized yet burning with spite and envious hatred, hoping that they also might become rich.
The disciples reacted curiously to the idea of the exclusion of the rich: 'who then can be saved'? (Apparently they had been culturally brainwashed.) But Jesus responded in hope, 'with God all things are possible.' God DOES desire the repentance of all, including even the rich. But people hoarding EARTHLY riches to their OWN spiritual hurt is clearly not part of God's agenda----------quite apart from the social damage which that causes!
I'm not actually American, though I did live in the USA for awhile. Neo-liberal policies have certainly wrought a great deal of damage in Western countries during the past four decades, and I would agree that the USA has suffered particularly. Your comment about Sanders sounds quite interesting. Could you explain what you meant by it?
'Imperialism' is an ugly-sounding word for so many of us. Despite all the carnage and brutality associated with their establishment, empires have facilitated communication, cultural dispersion, and the movement of peoples in so many ways, that we cannot extricate what we are and have become from the historical and social FACT of 'imperialism'. I myself, as a person of hybrid European descent, would never have existed were it not for late 19th-century British policies of expansion and settlement in the former Northwest Territories. Since childhood I was acutely aware (though not one really told me) that the success of this policy depended upon the dispossession of Native tribes who had lived in the region for millenia. In retrospect I can see that I was living in an 'apartheid' society, remnants of which still remain.

[@jamberry8026]

Dr. Davis is among the great educators and orators of this century!

[@javierbusto1964]

😂

[@jamberry8026]

@@javierbusto1964 Am I supposed to be insulted, because a knuckle dragger is laughing at my comment? 🙃

[@i.j22]

Bro 😂😂😭

[@jamberry8026]

@@i.j22 You use emojis, because you can't spell.

[@AfricanDocs]

Beautiful conversation. Thanks for sharing this

[@hugotendam5349]

Greatly inspirational! Something else peaks my interest next to the content of her speech. How so does she end her sentences with -ah?

[@Lindokuhle.Nkwanyane]

I love how this lady speaks.

[@666Metalbassist]

Thanks for uploading these

[@DeadManAnimations]

Great video

[@mikemike7264]

Intersectionality has been a detriment to black men and the black community overall.

[@Bovice..YT-handles-are-fn-dumb]

She glows

[@jamberry8026]

@ Afromarxist... Got the link to the whole lecture?

[@AfroMarxist]

Here it is : ruclips.net/video/sNIgsic3k0k/видео.html

[@amirmaurer8408]

To dismiss peoples capabilities on the basis of who was more oppressed seems a little reductive to me.
You can make the connection between race- and genderviolence without dismissing anyone who was not oppressed to a degree you deem worthy.

[@ScammedbyFolrentinaConchas]

4 years later you find out your "May flower "child🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@mauropiquera8056]

Every single time I begin to see the strongest of points from someone who appears to comprehend intersectionality and can develop a critique of mainstream feminism they shit on their entire argument by shoehorning capitalism into the conversation, fully displaying their inherent ignorance of how capitalism works, and make a mental gymnastics competition of an argument to try to link it with whatever genuine problem they're attempting to speak about.
And then by NOT going into detail about what exactly capitalism has to do with the topic, they just namedrop it in an attempt to trick the listener into believing this is just some agreed upon fact lmao.
Great respect for Ms. Davis and this is actually THE correct take on intersectionality, but drop the agenda pushing you're literally a pawn for the white man's "Democratic" party

[@manuelsalinas5705]

She brings up capitalism because it plays a role in co-opting the feminist movement and making feminist activists ignore issues faced by poor and working-class women. Feminism is supposed to be a movement for *all* women, not just those in privileged positions.

[@dontbeafool]

You realize you've been brainwashed by people woth an agenda right? Everything you just wrote has been fed to you so you become a pawn for the revolution. I bet you can't even form an idea of your own at this point.

[@fuckamericanidiot]

@@manuelsalinas5705 Most women didn't want the vote.
Was that because of capitalism?
No.

[@zeenuf00]

This is all about a power grab.

[@jamberry8026]

Says the little whiny man who's afraid of women.

[@zeenuf00]

@@jamberry8026 amateur shaming tactics don't work

[@jamberry8026]

@@zeenuf00 😆 🤣 Shame a knuckle dragger? No! You still have no power over women except for what they give you. What? You're still in subjugation to the white man. You are already his girl! And you like being that, don't you, girl? Black women are rising up out of subjugation and leaving you knuckle draggers behind.. 👋 Lmao We got money. Own legitimate business and we own our ownselves. You still robbing and selling illegal dope filling up the pennetentiaries and got the nerve to talk about the Black women who are actually trying to help you. How stupid is that? Your man (the white man) sees that and they're using it against you, but you're too slow and lug headed to see it. You're right! Ignorance has no shame! See ya! Wouldn't wanna be ya! 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆

[@zeenuf00]

@@jamberry8026 triggered babble 😆 🤣
fall for more grifters.
that's what you do best.
I'm white, btw. halfwit.

[@jamberry8026]

@@zeenuf00 Triggered babble to you, because you have a problem with reading! You fear me and it's the reason you feel naked without your silly guns. The only problem with that is that your gun was not the only gun made, but you don't have the capacity to think or see that far, little girl! Tisk... tisk! Your guns only trick you into thinking that you have big nuts. It's little, huh? 😏 You keep posting silly comments and putting your ignorance on display for all to see. Keep up the good work, girl! 😆 🤣 😂 😹

Filthy racist.