Category: Commentary, Critique, and Response

INTERSECTIONALITY – AS THE BAIT AND SWITCH BETWEEN FRAMES By: Gearóid Walsh (via Brandon Hayes) Intersectionality – as the bait and switch between frames like ethnicity and class-construct – is largely what created the so-called “alt-right”. Intersectionality as a theory is a partiality within a partiality, and eschewing all counterpoint that would make it whole, trustworthy and reciprocal, means that it amounts to a folk theory for theft and soft forms of demographic warfare. There is a perfect symmetry to the way in which what is strategically unaccounted for became a form of rising opposition. And also in the way such opposition was framed when it did. These are not your grandfather’s “neo-nazis”. They are usually moderate, reasonable and sometimes very sophisticated people who realize the game that’s being played and refuse to be mugged by it so as to not appear “problematic”.

INTERSECTIONALITY – AS THE BAIT AND SWITCH BETWEEN FRAMES By: Gearóid Walsh (via Brandon Hayes) Intersectionality – as the bait and switch between frames like ethnicity and class-construct – is largely what created the so-called “alt-right”. Intersectionality as a theory is a partiality within a partiality, and eschewing all counterpoint that would make it whole, trustworthy and reciprocal, means that it amounts to a folk theory for theft and soft forms of demographic warfare. There is a perfect symmetry to the way in which what is strategically unaccounted for became a form of rising opposition. And also in the way such opposition was framed when it did. These are not your grandfather’s “neo-nazis”. They are usually moderate, reasonable and sometimes very sophisticated people who realize the game that’s being played and refuse to be mugged by it so as to not appear “problematic”.