Intersectionality: A new form of tribalism. A pseudoscientific method to help you choose your “socially constructed” categories so you can identify to which tribes you belong.
One of the many problems with intersectionality is that two people in the same identity group will have very different experiences in the world.For example, two lesbian , black women will have different experiences with oppression. One may experience it and one may not. You can't and shouldn't make ASSumptions about a person based on their group identity. If you fractionate down, the smallest group is the individual...
Sociology is about examining tendencies, general patterns, norms ect. There are plenty of ways to understand individuals as well. THis is of course a very general way of seeign things, but sometimes generalisation is needed to convey a whole.
Someone has been listening to Jordan Peterson. He even discusses the general vs outlier variations if you listen to him and not just take him at face value. I think this is an issue that he maintains in his interviews when people start to accuse him of being on the right, when he himself doesn't consider his position to be on the right at all.
This is a great point. I am a Caribbean-American, and I am often told that I can never understand what an African-American experiences because my parents weren’t born here or grew up during the civil rights movement. They are partially correct, but only partially. I’m still a black man living in America. The perceptions start with the color of my skin until they hear my accent.
I agree. Its especially a problem when it ends up with "you belong to these groups. So you are affected by these problems and thus need this solutions." I suspect there is a large group of people who tries to use stuff like intersectionality to find technocratic solutions without talking to the concrete person. (FOr example I am autistic and apparently, most anti discrimination people automatically assume that my biggest concern is finding a job. This was no problem for me at all, and I inherited so much money that I would not even need a job. Instead, my real troubles lies in human connections. This got almost completely ignored because some stupid sociologist said "your problem is finding a job" without even talking to me. So, I got put into a government program to find jobs for disabled people, which got rather traumatizing and had huge side effects on my mental health.)
Identities are made up of what we feel and taught? Is that not slavery of the mind? And does not this deny objective reality? I was taught, by teachers and peers, that I was a fool, worthless and unworthy of respect. This teaching certainly effected my feelings, should I agree with them because identity is defined by feelings and teaching?
I wish people did lean more toward individuality rather than what they were taught. Like it or not, we are programmed to a great extent. So many of use would like to believe that we are independent thinkers, but much of what we practice isn't.
Thank you so much for this presentation! I am teaching intersectionality to my freshman students soon and this was such a simple and effective way of breaking down a complex term!
It is fascinating that many comments are arguing against the idea of intersectionality. They believe that this is all poppycock and that there is no way any of us share any identities, and if we do, there is no way they can be used to categorize us. However, their group-think, as evident in their shared opinion of this video, proves Ms. Crenshaw's argument. Many of these individuals seem to fit several of the same categories. one would be that they are men. I have other hunches, but I am going to go through the comments and do some background work to see how else they intersect. I have a funky feeling I already know, though.
I find the concept of how "I" define myself, as problematic. Often, how you define yourself is not that relevant. You could be surrounded by hostile social forces....or simply be delusional.
I think one of my biggest problems with this (not just the fact I have to watch this for an upper level college class) is the fact that our "identity" is based on what we "feel", talk about subjective. What about our thoughts and critical thinking? That's far more concrete than this idea that our identities are these flimsy things subject to the environment around us.
Hi and thanks for your thoughts. What you said is precisely the point. As it says above, this video was created in a Khan Academy style, sociology oriented format. If this were a sociology class, as a teacher, I would give you an "A" for your comment. Identity IS more complex, yet we are conditioned to see and treat it within very limited silos. Also, important to remember is the ways this all plays into context with how we are socialized around social norms and who/what is given privilege. Again, thanks for your thoughts and take care!
@@tarynlcrenshaw5831 Thanks for responding. I completely agree that our identities are immeasurably complex and to some extent influenced bynour environment (nurture/nature), but this idea doesn't seem to allow for mobility outside the groups intersectionality demands; where then, is room for autonomy, or are we just slaves to what we were born into?
@@tarynlcrenshaw5831 no.... we aren't taught to see it through limited silos...and without that base assumption the whole pile of crap comes tumbling down. You teach this like it's an enlightened perspective and only those that can regurgitate intersectional buzz words "understand"...everyone else is just an uninformed poor savage that needs to be educated. It's a supremacist view of the world when coupled with identity politics - it fails to include biology and raw intelligence. Hopefully it is a stepping stone to a better "theory" ...if we rest here we are doomed to repeat the tribalist conflicts that have written history.
@@azurehall4025 great comment. Nailed it...no social mobility or change, no individual, just stereotypical group prejudices. It's like these people went to the first marketing class on demographics and didnt attend the rest of the course.
@@Tele999zzz I disagree. Many of us are indeed "taught to see identity through a limited silos," which does (in many ways) limit meaningful dialogue. I hate to give the following examples, but as an African-American woman I feel I have to, or at least I think it is the best way for me to explain what I am getting at. So, if we consider the social landscape today, we understand that much of what is going on is a result of people refusing to come together, communicate effectively, and respectfully. Add to this, many people are stuck in what they believe in. Classist, who believe they are better because of their ability to buy access into space. Racist, who believe it's okay to scream the N-word, followed by some foolhardy reasoning for wanting better treatment as a result of some disillusioned view of themselves and others. Or, sexist...I am sure you get the gist. What I am saying is, just because you do not experience something personally, does not mean it does not exist. I understand that not everyone has the same experience, but you can't discount those who do have these experiences.
If intersectionality doesn't tell you, that we are all oppressed by the rich and powerful, then it has no bigger meaning. Why would you want to think, that I am part of the problem BECAUSE I'm a middle-aged white male? That has NOTHING to do with my identity and what I do. I'm a Vegan who believes that climate breakdown is inevitable because of human nature, but still acts as if there is a small chance. Vegan means, I hold every sentient being as having some form of value and therefore is not to be exploited.. that includes, all humans too. If you think race, gender status etc. is more important for identity that political persuasions, you are only seeing a fraction of the individual. A fraction that will lead to bad conclusions.
What a bunch of ka ka. No wonder so many kids these days are having difficulty finding work post graduation. If this is what you went to college to learn you wasted your money. At the end of the day, we simply have to grow up, get jobs, and learn to play in the sand box together. Not so hard is it? Cant do that, too bad for you, but im sure you will find a way to blame your lack of employment on some " social construct". It certainly couldn't be your terrible doctrine you heap onto those you come in contact with..... Im sure of that.
@kraftlobster: you are 1 zillion % correct. Next thing we know postmodernist intersectionists will claim a 5 year old is the same as a 100 year old because age is a social construct,
Well the absolute age of a person is of course not a social construct. How we see that age, how we feel that a person should act at a certain age etc, that’s the social construct version of age. We assign meaning to the amount of birthdays that a person has celebrated. I believe that is what age means in this context
yes, some people look at feminism that way. They seem to you to be the the agressor, the agressions they suffer, you suppose to be made up. Others see it differently. One day we will talk
What a flawed concept. In the end after we slice the pie a million different ways were are still left with the INDIVIDUAL...yeesh why make it so complicated. How about intersectionality ZIP LANES like wealth, beauty, and power which tends to be culturally and socially immune in virtually any part of the world.
...err.... you forgot biological urges and physical/mathematical reality as constraints. Bit of a childish way to view society and it helps me understand why postmodernism is a cartoon version of society. Suggest you learn to code.
I mean, it is. The concept of age and death that is. Animals don’t have an “age”, because they don’t measure their lives in years. Similarly, animals don’t have the concept of “death” in the same way that humans do. To humans, death is more than just the cessation of life, there isn’t a single person who hasn’t wondered what happens when we die whether that pertains to religion, spirituality, or just the distribution of our molecules. That’s what makes it a social construct, vs. a biological or innate one.
I think everything goes downhill when we assume that our identities and how they interact with society is simply the way in which society decides to interact with them. That essentially everything is rooted in a social construct rather than a reality and that such social constructs about race, gender, sexuality, etc. can be changed, bended and molded over time and place. This is the most false academic concept because it is to assume that everything is just perception but it is not. Reality and fact exist because we can observe it in the physical realm and we have studied it. For example, psychoanalysis and psychology as a whole is not just a social construct, it is a very real thing. Same goes for anthropological and biological understandings. Our gender is a very real thing, same with our sexuality, ethnicity, culture and class and all these things are very fixed, but the way in which these classifications interact with other realities are not only due to social constructs but actual scientific realities we are bound to regardless of where we live or when. Also, on the general theme of being judged by a group and not an individual is simply too simple, primitive and tribalistic a way of thinking for civilization. You can't just view society as a conflict of tribes based on identity as is viewed in primitive countries (especially in the past, not as much now) like Nigeria/whole of Africa. This is a very dangerous and primitive way of seeing things.
No. Curiously enough, you're only allowed to construct yourself as the herd sees fit. Recently, a sociologist make the mistake of asking "If people can be trans-gender, can they also be trans-racial?" I'll put the link below. nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/transracialism-article-controversy.html
It isn't just a social construct though is it? its also biological. the construct part unless there's some new weird faze/disease going around I've not heard of. And transgender-ism is a disease. Gender disphoria. But hey I don't care what they do... It what the race is known as in a sociopolitical/economic way. And the stereotypes come from the standard outcomes of individuals of each kind or (intersection identity)
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Thank you so much. I didnt agree with your views before this video, and after watching I don't see how you could even believe the utter stupidity that you are trying to push on people. Try living in the real world sometime
I personally do not believe in this myself, but what they mean is that someone once "created" a calendar that categorizes your time on earth in "so and so many years". This category is not natural, it is socially created by humans.
There are essentially two kinds of social constructs. Those that are so trivially, eg. states or money that are arbitrarily made up by humans, and those that are so causally, eg. the Moon and age. It's just a different way of highlighting Kant's point of how we can't reach the world as it is, but have to rely on our perceptions of it. For us to hold concepts, we have to construe them socially. A concept that wasn't so construed would hold no meaning, and we couldn't communicate it. To stretch this out from epistemology to ontology, which most "it's just a social construct brah" statements seem to imply, and say that there is no age at all is too large a leap. Age exists without us, but our form of knowing about age is more or less "made up".
@@15minutesshortstory No. It was NOT "socially created by humans" it was socially OBSERVED by humans. "so and so many years" is in-fact natural, it IS NATURE. Now, you can go on and argue that the language we use to communicate this phenomenon IS a social construct, however the way in which the planets move will NOT in-fact change, if we WERE to change the "social construct" of language. And this is the problem with leftist ideology. To declare ANYTHING that they wish to corrupt a "social construct" so that they can de-legitimize things they wish to change and bring into accordance with their own world view. It's a dishonest and stupid way to achieve anything. Furthermore, I don't think that EVERYTHING that the left believes or wants to do is bad. I agree with many so called "Leftist ideas". However they way that the left currently tries to achieve their goals by enforcing THEIR morality partly thru language is illogical and destructive to everything around them INCLUDING the things that I believe are their GOOD IDEAS.
@@FUNZO1975 True! It has so much to do with linguistics. I HAD to take one gender class at university and realized that in this particular field, so much revolves around language and how we describe phenomena we observe. My problem with the Left is rather that they claim a theory to be 100% true. Ignoring the fact that this is just one of many ideas. They are entitled to have their opinion/view but picking one and preaching it as a religion (without evidence) is what bothers me.
But I don't identity as a collective. And while I may place specific labels on my ideas, or even physical characteristics, these do not define me. Certainly, my ethnicity may act as an initial identifier to myself or others, but there is no necessity to this. Furthermore, what these things mean vary from person to person. It sure seems as if Intersectionality is a rather narrow, and possibly bigoted way of viewing life.
Intersectionality? My spell-check is having a bit of a problem with that........And, it's NOT in my Webster's.......hmmmmmm. Me thinks a tad of cultural Marxism is being described here......
If the meaning giver can influence us to identify contrary to who we are, cannot I as a individual, embrace my own identity which is also contrary to who I am? Or, am I my own maker, my own god?
Ooo, so my visual disability is just a social construct huh? I never knew that. And age too. Who would you recommend I talk to in order to get to the bottom of how my sexuality, gender etc. intersects with my visual disability? Could a sexchange improve my eyesight? Can I live forever if I gather enough gullable people around me a tell them, every year on my birthday that I turned 15? There is potential in this model, I can see that. Very interesting.
No, but the ideas, norms, stereotypes and expectations society has about your disability are socially constructed, you're missing the point of what a social construct is.
Ideas, no. Normas, sterotypes and expectations, yes. If this video was trying to explain what a social construct was it might not be half bad. But she is not talking about social constructs is she. Intersectionality is not a different lens through which we can understand social constructs better. Intersectionality is a lens through which some people argue we can understand reality better. Make no mistake, it's all meant quite literally. It's nice that you understand what a social construct is but, your missing the real point here. Which I think is that reality is not a social construct. Our perception and experience of reality may be partially socially constructed or at least influenced by social factors but, reality is what it is. Nobody's ideas about it factor into that, whether they intersect or not.
Karb Jarb Race is defined by emergent biological factors. And Age? Goodness me. This is very misguided. It seems made up. The root should be biological.
Just ask Richard Dawkins! He reminds you that there is no one single day where you wake up as an elderly person, but were non-elderly the day before. Age groups exist in a continuum and do not have a strict connection to biology, just like class isn't strictly defined by money etc.
The way people treat people of different ages is socially constructed. The way we assume immaturity in the young, and intrinsicslly respect our elders. These are social and cultural ideas that ignore the individual and their own merits (disregarding the bias of their age). For example if I tell you I'm 12, you may treat me differently in this comment section than If i say I'm 41. The truth of this question is irrelevant, because it bares no standing on my personal merits, it is only relevant in that society makes it relevant. In that society constructs a view on how age means a certainty of particular characteristics
@@thomascocks9136 Well, it's also a sort of heuristic isn't it? Sort of abductive thinking. A random child you meet most likely is more "immature" not only because we allow children to be more immature societally, but because their brains are at a different state of development when compared to a 40 year old. A random child could be more mature than a 40 year old, but it is not very likely. So the expectations are not, atleast all arbitrarily formed through some historical and cultural processes, but based on heuristics.
Thank you for making this video. Intersectionality as a concept is being overused. The purpose of evaluating oppresion is to determine what should be done (which choice is good for society). This concept intersectionality is like an in-between of classification by social status and a more detailed analysis of their situation (which gives more information about a person so that we can find out what to do). Therefore it should be seen in the same way as evaluating people in with the maximum number of details about their situation and analysis by their social class
you guys are missing the point, the identities are not characters or words that describe you, they are things like race, class and gender. someone who is trans and low class would experience more difficulties than a white person would, this is not to say every trans person of low class will have the same experience but they will usually have worse experiences than their white peers.
Shelly Rowley but when someone pushing the intersectional agenda is challenged by an opposing view, the default action is typically to shut them down as they are a straight, white male etc and so their opinion is invalid. What happens when they are faced with someone who is lower down on the societal privilege hierarchy? It probably rarely happens but I would be interested to find out. For example your typical middle class college age white female who takes gender studies, who is faced by a working class black male. Is his opinion more or less valid than hers? The whole idea of intersectionality is flawed. It encourages people to judge arguments based on who is saying them (how oppressed that person is) instead of the logic or merit of the argument.
the point of intersectionality is to talk about the groups that are affected by two or more types of oppression, for example a white woman would face sexism, a black man would face racism, and a black woman would face both so that would be an intersectionality. it’s not to say your race, class and gender etc, is what defines you but it’s to understand issues better and how to help solve them by understanding the problem and the root of it.
Yes. All our perceptions all arise from our biological perceptions. Theravada Buddhism said this 2500 years ago. And Kant alludes to this as well. Use Theravada Vipassana Meditation to move beyond the body and experience another state. This has nothing to do with Astral Projections.
I'm confused somewhat by the analogy and would appreciate a little clarification. The two roads that form the intersection are perpendicular. Social progress, I'd think, moves in one direction. If that's so, wouldn't the streets be parallel? And if that's so, when/ how would they intersect? Thanks in advance for the help. : )
David Summers Also, roundabouts have been proven to be far safer and more efficient than intersections, so what is the sociological equivalent of a roundabout, and should we be using them instead?
Is Intersectionality the new me-ism, which racism is a form of? Is this not just more segregation, more looking not at the individual themselves, but only as a group? And doesn't this, by necessity, therefore erase the individual and any chance of them being judged by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin?
This is an introduction to "intersectionality", a key concept to master when striving to impress other liberals with your wokeness or your high victim group status.
Identities cannot be defined by any data, scholars, paper... everyone has their individual identity that is formed, forced, conditioned and hence forth by their social location... which is race, gender, class, sexual orientations, ethnicity and their individual experience
I don’t know about these Anglo American status quo persona wearing folks on this comment thread, but this is great. Anyone that doubts this really needs to revisit epistemological positivism because that’s what intersectionality is. Great video! 👍🏿❤️🖤💚
It's dehumanizing. It claims people fit into groups based on in innate characteristics. You are not you...you are XYZ. No! I won't let racist bigots tell me who I am because of my skin color and I won't let progressives do it either.
The only meaning giver that ultimately matters is God. Everyone will individually have to give an account, to God, for their own sin. The true struggle is between good and evil, as defined by God. The idea of oppressed and oppressors is a Marxist idea. It promotes a victim mentality that leads to strife and bondage. Human invented social constructs and solutions can’t solve the biggest problem for all of humanity. The real problem for humans is dealing with sin. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. If anyone harbors sin without looking to God for forgiveness, they are in bondage. God alone can forgive sin and no human will give account to God for anyone else’s sin. God is sovereign over everything and if we sinners got what we truly deserve from Holy God, it would be damnation. BUT there is hope, because God provided someone to pay the price for our sin. He is Jesus Christ. Jesus said, “No one comes to The Father except through me.”. Those who have ears, let them hear. What will you do about your sin! John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes on Him shall not parish, but shall have everlasting life.
+David Rojas, basically, it CAN'T be defined AT ALL! That's about the ONLY thing pertinent to this "idea(lism)"...."Intersectionality" isn't even a WORD! My spellcheck doesn't like it, and it's NOT in my Webster's! Cultural Marxism at it's FINEST!!!
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Great way to point out that intersectionality is important when thinking about politics and heritage. Most of us are multi-racial and not all feminists are the same. Not all women are the same. Not all men are the same. Not all transmen are the same. We have different situations that are connected to history and politics, depending on multiple factors. But it's definitely more complex than thinking about people individually. Individuals are impacted by the world and society that they live in. Politics and history can show us that.
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There needs to be a standardized test to determine how many disenfranchised groups one can identify with. This will determine ones relevance in the world ideas. I call it the Intersectionality Quotient test, which will replace outdated methods of IQ testing, which did not judge people based on the color of their skin.
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Intersectionality: A new form of tribalism. A pseudoscientific method to help you choose your “socially constructed” categories so you can identify to which tribes you belong.
Yeah, sadly there is a weird communitarian borderline racist bent in some forms of intersectional activism.
One of the many problems with intersectionality is that two people in the same identity group will have very different experiences in the world.For example, two lesbian , black women will have different experiences with oppression. One may experience it and one may not. You can't and shouldn't make ASSumptions about a person based on their group identity. If you fractionate down, the smallest group is the individual...
Sociology is about examining tendencies, general patterns, norms ect. There are plenty of ways to understand individuals as well. THis is of course a very general way of seeign things, but sometimes generalisation is needed to convey a whole.
Someone has been listening to Jordan Peterson. He even discusses the general vs outlier variations if you listen to him and not just take him at face value. I think this is an issue that he maintains in his interviews when people start to accuse him of being on the right, when he himself doesn't consider his position to be on the right at all.
This is a great point. I am a Caribbean-American, and I am often told that I can never understand what an African-American experiences because my parents weren’t born here or grew up during the civil rights movement. They are partially correct, but only partially. I’m still a black man living in America. The perceptions start with the color of my skin until they hear my accent.
I agree. Its especially a problem when it ends up with "you belong to these groups. So you are affected by these problems and thus need this solutions." I suspect there is a large group of people who tries to use stuff like intersectionality to find technocratic solutions without talking to the concrete person. (FOr example I am autistic and apparently, most anti discrimination people automatically assume that my biggest concern is finding a job. This was no problem for me at all, and I inherited so much money that I would not even need a job. Instead, my real troubles lies in human connections. This got almost completely ignored because some stupid sociologist said "your problem is finding a job" without even talking to me. So, I got put into a government program to find jobs for disabled people, which got rather traumatizing and had huge side effects on my mental health.)
Exactly
Identities are made up of what we feel and taught? Is that not slavery of the mind? And does not this deny objective reality? I was taught, by teachers and peers, that I was a fool, worthless and unworthy of respect. This teaching certainly effected my feelings, should I agree with them because identity is defined by feelings and teaching?
I wish people did lean more toward individuality rather than what they were taught. Like it or not, we are programmed to a great extent. So many of use would like to believe that we are independent thinkers, but much of what we practice isn't.
Thank you so much for this presentation! I am teaching intersectionality to my freshman students soon and this was such a simple and effective way of breaking down a complex term!
This is a terrible way to look at the world.
And you are a terrible person polluting the world.
It is fascinating that many comments are arguing against the idea of intersectionality. They believe that this is all poppycock and that there is no way any of us share any identities, and if we do, there is no way they can be used to categorize us. However, their group-think, as evident in their shared opinion of this video, proves Ms. Crenshaw's argument.
Many of these individuals seem to fit several of the same categories. one would be that they are men. I have other hunches, but I am going to go through the comments and do some background work to see how else they intersect. I have a funky feeling I already know, though.
I find the concept of how "I" define myself, as problematic. Often, how you define yourself is not that relevant. You could be surrounded by hostile social forces....or simply be delusional.
I think one of my biggest problems with this (not just the fact I have to watch this for an upper level college class) is the fact that our "identity" is based on what we "feel", talk about subjective. What about our thoughts and critical thinking? That's far more concrete than this idea that our identities are these flimsy things subject to the environment around us.
Hi and thanks for your thoughts. What you said is precisely the point. As it says above, this video was created in a Khan Academy style, sociology oriented format. If this were a sociology class, as a teacher, I would give you an "A" for your comment. Identity IS more complex, yet we are conditioned to see and treat it within very limited silos. Also, important to remember is the ways this all plays into context with how we are socialized around social norms and who/what is given privilege. Again, thanks for your thoughts and take care!
@@tarynlcrenshaw5831 Thanks for responding. I completely agree that our identities are immeasurably complex and to some extent influenced bynour environment (nurture/nature), but this idea doesn't seem to allow for mobility outside the groups intersectionality demands; where then, is room for autonomy, or are we just slaves to what we were born into?
@@tarynlcrenshaw5831 no.... we aren't taught to see it through limited silos...and without that base assumption the whole pile of crap comes tumbling down. You teach this like it's an enlightened perspective and only those that can regurgitate intersectional buzz words "understand"...everyone else is just an uninformed poor savage that needs to be educated. It's a supremacist view of the world when coupled with identity politics - it fails to include biology and raw intelligence. Hopefully it is a stepping stone to a better "theory" ...if we rest here we are doomed to repeat the tribalist conflicts that have written history.
@@azurehall4025 great comment. Nailed it...no social mobility or change, no individual, just stereotypical group prejudices. It's like these people went to the first marketing class on demographics and didnt attend the rest of the course.
@@Tele999zzz I disagree. Many of us are indeed "taught to see identity through a limited silos," which does (in many ways) limit meaningful dialogue. I hate to give the following examples, but as an African-American woman I feel I have to, or at least I think it is the best way for me to explain what I am getting at.
So, if we consider the social landscape today, we understand that much of what is going on is a result of people refusing to come together, communicate effectively, and respectfully. Add to this, many people are stuck in what they believe in. Classist, who believe they are better because of their ability to buy access into space. Racist, who believe it's okay to scream the N-word, followed by some foolhardy reasoning for wanting better treatment as a result of some disillusioned view of themselves and others. Or, sexist...I am sure you get the gist. What I am saying is, just because you do not experience something personally, does not mean it does not exist.
I understand that not everyone has the same experience, but you can't discount those who do have these experiences.
If intersectionality doesn't tell you, that we are all oppressed by the rich and powerful, then it has no bigger meaning.
Why would you want to think, that I am part of the problem BECAUSE I'm a middle-aged white male?
That has NOTHING to do with my identity and what I do.
I'm a Vegan who believes that climate breakdown is inevitable because of human nature, but still acts as if there is a small chance.
Vegan means, I hold every sentient being as having some form of value and therefore is not to be exploited.. that includes, all humans too.
If you think race, gender status etc. is more important for identity that political persuasions, you are only seeing a fraction of the individual.
A fraction that will lead to bad conclusions.
Intersectionality is a political tactic, not a sociological method of analysis. There is so much wrong in one video, it is impressive...
What a bunch of ka ka. No wonder so many kids these days are having difficulty finding work post graduation. If this is what you went to college to learn you wasted your money. At the end of the day, we simply have to grow up, get jobs, and learn to play in the sand box together. Not so hard is it? Cant do that, too bad for you, but im sure you will find a way to blame your lack of employment on some " social construct". It certainly couldn't be your terrible doctrine you heap onto those you come in contact with..... Im sure of that.
Is identity defined solely by the individual? Is it not in part negotiated by others as well?
Thank you for the a thoughtful presentation which clarifies the concepts of the theory of intersectionality.
Negating the frame reinforces the frame....anti-racism BREEDS RACISM!
Age is a social construct, thanks to postmodern "science" figuring that one out. God help us all.
@kraftlobster: you are 1 zillion % correct. Next thing we know postmodernist intersectionists will claim a 5 year old is the same as a 100 year old because age is a social construct,
Well the absolute age of a person is of course not a social construct. How we see that age, how we feel that a person should act at a certain age etc, that’s the social construct version of age. We assign meaning to the amount of birthdays that a person has celebrated. I believe that is what age means in this context
Intro to toxic feminism.
yes, some people look at feminism that way.
They seem to you to be the the agressor, the agressions they suffer, you suppose to be made up.
Others see it differently.
One day we will talk
What a flawed concept. In the end after we slice the pie a million different ways were are still left with the INDIVIDUAL...yeesh why make it so complicated. How about intersectionality ZIP LANES like wealth, beauty, and power which tends to be culturally and socially immune in virtually any part of the world.
...err.... you forgot biological urges and physical/mathematical reality as constraints. Bit of a childish way to view society and it helps me understand why postmodernism is a cartoon version of society. Suggest you learn to code.
Intersectionality is poison.
If age is a social construct, it follows that death is also a social construct.
It's about the stereotypes and expectations that come with different ages in different societies, not age as something biological.
i don't identify with your age based social construct's, i think we just found the secret to immortality.
Dumbass comment
I mean, it is. The concept of age and death that is. Animals don’t have an “age”, because they don’t measure their lives in years. Similarly, animals don’t have the concept of “death” in the same way that humans do. To humans, death is more than just the cessation of life, there isn’t a single person who hasn’t wondered what happens when we die whether that pertains to religion, spirituality, or just the distribution of our molecules. That’s what makes it a social construct, vs. a biological or innate one.
This made me pee.
It’s bullshit.
I think everything goes downhill when we assume that our identities and how they interact with society is simply the way in which society decides to interact with them. That essentially everything is rooted in a social construct rather than a reality and that such social constructs about race, gender, sexuality, etc. can be changed, bended and molded over time and place. This is the most false academic concept because it is to assume that everything is just perception but it is not. Reality and fact exist because we can observe it in the physical realm and we have studied it. For example, psychoanalysis and psychology as a whole is not just a social construct, it is a very real thing. Same goes for anthropological and biological understandings. Our gender is a very real thing, same with our sexuality, ethnicity, culture and class and all these things are very fixed, but the way in which these classifications interact with other realities are not only due to social constructs but actual scientific realities we are bound to regardless of where we live or when. Also, on the general theme of being judged by a group and not an individual is simply too simple, primitive and tribalistic a way of thinking for civilization. You can't just view society as a conflict of tribes based on identity as is viewed in primitive countries (especially in the past, not as much now) like Nigeria/whole of Africa. This is a very dangerous and primitive way of seeing things.
Intersectionality is the stiffest concept and ugliest word in English... The joining of multiple entities... Come on!
So if race is just a social construct and an identity, can I change which race I identify with, just like I can change which gender I identify with?
No. Curiously enough, you're only allowed to construct yourself as the herd sees fit. Recently, a sociologist make the mistake of asking "If people can be trans-gender, can they also be trans-racial?" I'll put the link below.
nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/05/transracialism-article-controversy.html
It isn't just a social construct though is it? its also biological. the construct part unless there's some new weird faze/disease going around I've not heard of. And transgender-ism is a disease. Gender disphoria. But hey I don't care what they do... It what the race is known as in a sociopolitical/economic way. And the stereotypes come from the standard outcomes of individuals of each kind or (intersection identity)
it being a social construct, means that it is contingent on the society it is in. not that it can necessarily be changed at will.
A lot of inner-city white kids are transracial.
A horse, having a wolf as a powerful and dangerous enemy, lived in constant fear of his life.
Being driven to desperation, it occurred to him to seek a strong ally. Where upon he approached a man, and offered an alliance pointing out that the wolf was likewise an enemy of the man.
The man accepted the partnership at once and offered to kill the wolf immediately if his new partner would only cooperate by placing his greater speed at the man's disposal.
The horse was willing and allowed the man to place bridle and saddle upon him. The man mounted hunted down the wolf and killed him.
The horse joyful and relieved thanked the man and said "Now that our enemy is dead, remove the bridle and saddle and restore my freedom."
Whereupon the man laughed loudly and replied "The hell you say giddy-up Dobbin" and applied the spurs with a will.
That's a good ol' Aesop's Fable.
🤣
Thank you so much. I didnt agree with your views before this video, and after watching I don't see how you could even believe the utter stupidity that you are trying to push on people. Try living in the real world sometime
This is really excellent! I'm going to show this to my students. Thank you so much!!
Please do not pass this information on to younger generations 😭it should be considered an attack on the future of intelligent life 😡
New religion, got it. But no thanks the old ones were bad enough.
Identity we can identify how ever we want now I am whatever I identify as and if you even comment on it you’re a bigot
Age is a social construct? How? No. Just... No.
I personally do not believe in this myself, but what they mean is that someone once "created" a calendar that categorizes your time on earth in "so and so many years". This category is not natural, it is socially created by humans.
There are essentially two kinds of social constructs. Those that are so trivially, eg. states or money that are arbitrarily made up by humans, and those that are so causally, eg. the Moon and age. It's just a different way of highlighting Kant's point of how we can't reach the world as it is, but have to rely on our perceptions of it. For us to hold concepts, we have to construe them socially. A concept that wasn't so construed would hold no meaning, and we couldn't communicate it. To stretch this out from epistemology to ontology, which most "it's just a social construct brah" statements seem to imply, and say that there is no age at all is too large a leap. Age exists without us, but our form of knowing about age is more or less "made up".
@@polybian_bicycle Thanks for your input! Very interesting to read!
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No.
It was NOT "socially created by humans" it was socially OBSERVED by humans.
"so and so many years" is in-fact natural, it IS NATURE.
Now, you can go on and argue that the language we use to communicate this phenomenon IS a social construct, however the way in which the planets move will NOT in-fact change, if we WERE to change the "social construct" of language.
And this is the problem with leftist ideology. To declare ANYTHING that they wish to corrupt a "social construct" so that they can de-legitimize things they wish to change and bring into accordance with their own world view. It's a dishonest and stupid way to achieve anything.
Furthermore, I don't think that EVERYTHING that the left believes or wants to do is bad. I agree with many so called "Leftist ideas".
However they way that the left currently tries to achieve their goals by enforcing THEIR morality partly thru language is illogical and destructive to everything around them INCLUDING the things that I believe are their GOOD IDEAS.
@@FUNZO1975 True! It has so much to do with linguistics. I HAD to take one gender class at university and realized that in this particular field, so much revolves around language and how we describe phenomena we observe. My problem with the Left is rather that they claim a theory to be 100% true. Ignoring the fact that this is just one of many ideas. They are entitled to have their opinion/view but picking one and preaching it as a religion (without evidence) is what bothers me.
But I don't identity as a collective. And while I may place specific labels on my ideas, or even physical characteristics, these do not define me. Certainly, my ethnicity may act as an initial identifier to myself or others, but there is no necessity to this. Furthermore, what these things mean vary from person to person. It sure seems as if Intersectionality is a rather narrow, and possibly bigoted way of viewing life.
Is not everyone and everything potentially a meaning giver? Are not you attempting to apply meaning ?
Intersectionality? My spell-check is having a bit of a problem with that........And, it's NOT in my Webster's.......hmmmmmm. Me thinks a tad of cultural Marxism is being described here......
No, you're just an idiot.
If the meaning giver can influence us to identify contrary to who we are, cannot I as a individual, embrace my own identity which is also contrary to who I am? Or, am I my own maker, my own god?
Are you not yourself engaged in teaching and effecting people's feelings?
So, interesectionality is just a fancy way of categorizing people.😅
Word Salad much??
Ooo, so my visual disability is just a social construct huh? I never knew that. And age too. Who would you recommend I talk to in order to get to the bottom of how my sexuality, gender etc. intersects with my visual disability? Could a sexchange improve my eyesight? Can I live forever if I gather enough gullable people around me a tell them, every year on my birthday that I turned 15? There is potential in this model, I can see that. Very interesting.
No, but the ideas, norms, stereotypes and expectations society has about your disability are socially constructed, you're missing the point of what a social construct is.
Ideas, no. Normas, sterotypes and expectations, yes. If this video was trying to explain what a social construct was it might not be half bad. But she is not talking about social constructs is she. Intersectionality is not a different lens through which we can understand social constructs better. Intersectionality is a lens through which some people argue we can understand reality better. Make no mistake, it's all meant quite literally.
It's nice that you understand what a social construct is but, your missing the real point here. Which I think is that reality is not a social construct. Our perception and experience of reality may be partially socially constructed or at least influenced by social factors but, reality is what it is. Nobody's ideas about it factor into that, whether they intersect or not.
insanitiesinfliction I completely disagree and you just sound like a direct realist, a theory with plenty of holes.
You are quite welcome to disagree.
I haven't really thought enough, about the whole direct vs indirect realism question, i'd be happy to hear your thoughts on it.
So do I need to know this for my driving test??????
My driving instructor never told me about this!!!!!!
Meaning giver = propaganda.
Who else is here because a teacher forced them to?
Nicely done. I especially appreciate the distinction about time and location.
What a load of rubbish
Thank you for making this. I would love to see more videos from you on the topic.
Whatever it may have been intended to be,
It has become a weapon.
Free your minds
Or be buried with your flags.
So class is excluded from this concept🤣. Ok, housing and energy are excluded from CPI figures, so, all good?.
So it is social engineering.
Could you please explain how Age for example can be completely sociological construct? Obviously it has real world, biological merit, doesnt it?
Yeah surely they mean the stereotypes associated with age. Not age itself.
Karb Jarb Race is defined by emergent biological factors. And Age? Goodness me. This is very misguided. It seems made up. The root should be biological.
Just ask Richard Dawkins! He reminds you that there is no one single day where you wake up as an elderly person, but were non-elderly the day before. Age groups exist in a continuum and do not have a strict connection to biology, just like class isn't strictly defined by money etc.
The way people treat people of different ages is socially constructed. The way we assume immaturity in the young, and intrinsicslly respect our elders. These are social and cultural ideas that ignore the individual and their own merits (disregarding the bias of their age). For example if I tell you I'm 12, you may treat me differently in this comment section than If i say I'm 41. The truth of this question is irrelevant, because it bares no standing on my personal merits, it is only relevant in that society makes it relevant. In that society constructs a view on how age means a certainty of particular characteristics
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Well, it's also a sort of heuristic isn't it? Sort of abductive thinking. A random child you meet most likely is more "immature" not only because we allow children to be more immature societally, but because their brains are at a different state of development when compared to a 40 year old. A random child could be more mature than a 40 year old, but it is not very likely. So the expectations are not, atleast all arbitrarily formed through some historical and cultural processes, but based on heuristics.
Thank you for making this video.
Intersectionality as a concept is being overused. The purpose of evaluating oppresion is to determine what should be done (which choice is good for society). This concept intersectionality is like an in-between of classification by social status and a more detailed analysis of their situation (which gives more information about a person so that we can find out what to do). Therefore it should be seen in the same way as evaluating people in with the maximum number of details about their situation and analysis by their social class
Worst pile of garbage I have ever seen, this is destroying are country.
Our*
Your grammar is destroying our country. 😂
Was it ever your country to begin with? Read a history book. Or please just any book.
Interassuminality
you guys are missing the point, the identities are not characters or words that describe you, they are things like race, class and gender. someone who is trans and low class would experience more difficulties than a white person would, this is not to say every trans person of low class will have the same experience but they will usually have worse experiences than their white peers.
nicely explained and nicely connected! are you related to Kimberle Crenshaw?
Here's a breaker:
Black Man
White Female
Who's more oppressed?
+++FukU KaiXer: I'd LOVE to ask her this.......Excellent comment!!!
It's not oppression olympics. Black man experiences oppression, white female experiences oppression. Both in different ways.
Is this a serious question?
World order:
WHITE MAN
WHITE WOMAN
BLACK MAN
BLACK WOMAN
I hope this helps.
Shelly Rowley but when someone pushing the intersectional agenda is challenged by an opposing view, the default action is typically to shut them down as they are a straight, white male etc and so their opinion is invalid. What happens when they are faced with someone who is lower down on the societal privilege hierarchy? It probably rarely happens but I would be interested to find out. For example your typical middle class college age white female who takes gender studies, who is faced by a working class black male. Is his opinion more or less valid than hers? The whole idea of intersectionality is flawed. It encourages people to judge arguments based on who is saying them (how oppressed that person is) instead of the logic or merit of the argument.
People are exhausting. Why do I ever bother reading the comments ever...?
Hi, a really good explanation. Useful as I'm writing an essay on power and privilege.
please do more videos so that I can write my paper.
We are more than our identities though their a part of us sometimes huge but not us individually
the point of intersectionality is to talk about the groups that are affected by two or more types of oppression, for example a white woman would face sexism, a black man would face racism, and a black woman would face both so that would be an intersectionality. it’s not to say your race, class and gender etc, is what defines you but it’s to understand issues better and how to help solve them by understanding the problem and the root of it.
Is there objective truth?
Yes. All our perceptions all arise from our biological perceptions. Theravada Buddhism said this 2500 years ago. And Kant alludes to this as well. Use Theravada Vipassana Meditation to move beyond the body and experience another state. This has nothing to do with Astral Projections.
Sociology is a social construct. So how does that intersection work ?
How can an understanding of intersectionality help us create a more equitable multicultural society? Can any one answer by giving 6 points?
Ask jihadists
Please, please do more videos, so........ informative!
I'm confused somewhat by the analogy and would appreciate a little clarification. The two roads that form the intersection are perpendicular. Social progress, I'd think, moves in one direction. If that's so, wouldn't the streets be parallel? And if that's so, when/ how would they intersect? Thanks in advance for the help. : )
David Summers Also, roundabouts have been proven to be far safer and more efficient than intersections, so what is the sociological equivalent of a roundabout, and should we be using them instead?
Is Intersectionality the new me-ism, which racism is a form of? Is this not just more segregation, more looking not at the individual themselves, but only as a group? And doesn't this, by necessity, therefore erase the individual and any chance of them being judged by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin?
It's a form of "me ism" but you get the added benefit of pretending you have a whole group that stands behind you and supports you!!
The problem is we should not be defined by identity. This is what causes racism.
Identify is made up of more than skin color, I’d argue that being judged by parts of a persons identity is a good thing
@@rehpot9387 you would. I don't want to be judged at all. I'm American.
This is an introduction to "intersectionality", a key concept to master when striving to impress other liberals with your wokeness or your high victim group status.
Identities cannot be defined by any data, scholars, paper... everyone has their individual identity that is formed, forced, conditioned and hence forth by their social location... which is race, gender, class, sexual orientations, ethnicity and their individual experience
Sounds like *_individuality_* is being described.
That sound like Hate Speech??!!
Age??
wow
I don’t know about these Anglo American status quo persona wearing folks on this comment thread, but this is great. Anyone that doubts this really needs to revisit epistemological positivism because that’s what intersectionality is. Great video! 👍🏿❤️🖤💚
It's dehumanizing. It claims people fit into groups based on in innate characteristics. You are not you...you are XYZ.
No! I won't let racist bigots tell me who I am because of my skin color and I won't let progressives do it either.
The only meaning giver that ultimately matters is God. Everyone will individually have to give an account, to God, for their own sin. The true struggle is between good and evil, as defined by God. The idea of oppressed and oppressors is a Marxist idea. It promotes a victim mentality that leads to strife and bondage. Human invented social constructs and solutions can’t solve the biggest problem for all of humanity. The real problem for humans is dealing with sin. All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. If anyone harbors sin without looking to God for forgiveness, they are in bondage. God alone can forgive sin and no human will give account to God for anyone else’s sin. God is sovereign over everything and if we sinners got what we truly deserve from Holy God, it would be damnation. BUT there is hope, because God provided someone to pay the price for our sin. He is Jesus Christ. Jesus said, “No one comes to The Father except through me.”.
Those who have ears, let them hear. What will you do about your sin!
John 3:16 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes on Him shall not parish, but shall have everlasting life.
There is no privilege, quite like a whiteboard?.
very lucid & well explained :)
awww there are no more videos :(
thank you! I have to log in to my account to give you a like and a comment! this helps me with my understanding.
Tommy Robinson is so intersectional
But what would you define intersectionality in one short sentence?
David Intersectionality is like super string theory for victimologists.
In one short sentence: People have multifacets and many ways that they identify.
+David Rojas, basically, it CAN'T be defined AT ALL! That's about the ONLY thing pertinent to this "idea(lism)"...."Intersectionality" isn't even a WORD! My spellcheck doesn't like it, and it's NOT in my Webster's!
Cultural Marxism at it's FINEST!!!
One Word: Racism
Blather
+Bear Buster "Drivel".
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the endlessness of human stupidity and the secret of youtube algorithm trying to feed me this sort of bull with utmost persistence.
Great way to point out that intersectionality is important when thinking about politics and heritage. Most of us are multi-racial and not all feminists are the same. Not all women are the same. Not all men are the same. Not all transmen are the same. We have different situations that are connected to history and politics, depending on multiple factors. But it's definitely more complex than thinking about people individually. Individuals are impacted by the world and society that they live in. Politics and history can show us that.
There needs to be a standardized test to determine how many disenfranchised groups one can identify with. This will determine ones relevance in the world ideas. I call it the Intersectionality Quotient test, which will replace outdated methods of IQ testing, which did not judge people based on the color of their skin.
excellent explanation
Very very helpful... thankyou so much
Right! Now you know what to avoid.
This is a lot of nonsense.
Great and informative video!
This was helpful. Thank you!
Thank you for this. I'm using it to help present Intersectionality to a media class.
why? more brainwashing for our kids, Kyle de Villiers?
Perfect