I think intersectionality is one of these bad ideas. And it's not all bad. I mean, there are certain experiences that say a black woman is more likely to have than either a black person or a woman and that the sum of those identities don't add in a linear way. It seems to me from a perspective of a social scientist that intersectionality may be a semi-dPT. There's something about being a black woman that adds up to a disadvantage that is not just given by the arithmetic sum of the disadvantage of suffered by black men on the one hand and white women on the other hand.
In this episode of The Good Fight, Yascha Mounk talks to Coleman Hughes, a young black writer quickly making a big name for himself, about how to fight discrimination against minorities without making group membership more salient than it already is.
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