Someone told me i was ” dancing around an idea called “Intersectionality” and that i was ignorant. I looked it up and i’m still super confused about what i did. Could you please explain it with examples or something ?
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People with overlapping marginalized identities often experience discrimination that a person with just one of their marginalized identities wouldn’t. The legal incident that sparked the invention of the idea was a company that would hire Black men and white women, but wouldn’t hire Black women. The courts didn’t originally find them in violation of the law, because they weren’t _technically_ discriminating in race or gender.
More or less, marginalization isn’t a competition, but it can interact in unexpected and poor ways when someone is multiply marginalized in things like class, disability, race, ethnicity, gender, and sex.
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