{"id":42436,"date":"2025-09-14T01:00:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T05:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=42436"},"modified":"2025-09-13T10:32:10","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T14:32:10","slug":"qotd-intersectionality-theory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2025\/09\/14\/qotd-intersectionality-theory\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Intersectionality theory"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>I don’t think that Intersectionality Theory is a type of conspiracy theory for one obvious reason: conspiracy theories always involve some element of secrecy and there is nothing secret about it! The people who practice this fatuous and polarizing set of ideas are only too happy to tell the world about their plans for taking over the academy and eventually the world with their ideology. They publish it in journals and books, pronounce it from podiums and lecterns, and scream it at protests.<\/p>\n

More importantly, however, I do agree with Christina Hoff Sommers that Intersectionality Theory is dangerous for humanity, dissolving the complexity of human nature and culture down to an overly simple Manichean model of Oppressor and Oppressed, Them and Us, Good and Evil, and Black and White (literally and figuratively). It\u2019s is another instantiation of Identity Politics and it is dangerous because it threatens to reverse everything that the Civil Rights movement fought to obtain, and it is the very opposite of what Dr Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed about in his most famous speech:<\/p>\n