People often say to me “Atticus, I don’t really understand this groovy new thing called ‘intersectionality’ that all of the professional agitators are banging on about these days. Can you explain it to me?”
As such, I thought it worth adding a page to my blog so that everyone can appreciate the wonder of this powerful new tool of victimhood politics.
Basically, intersectionality is like a totem pole of victimhood. The people who are not victims – ie the ‘oppressors’ – sit at the bottom of the totem pole. The more susceptible to being oppressed your own identity group is, the higher up the intersectionality pole you will be. Therefore, the most oppressed groups in our society sit at the top of the pole and the oppressors sit at the bottom. Nasty bullies at the bottom, brave survivors of victimisation at the top. Got it?
So, we have established that different identity groups occupy different rungs on the Intersectionality totem pole depending on the consensus of their claims to victimhood. Now, I will explain another very important aspect of Intersectionality that truly reveals the Orwellian genius behind the concept: identity groups on the pole can say whatever they want about other identity groups on the pole but only if the group they are attacking are LOWER down the pole than their own group. As such, white women can attack white men with impunity and no one will pull them up on it. They get a free pass because, historically, white men have oppressed white women for millennia but now, in the last 2 weeks, the tables have turned. It’s women’s chance to get their own back. And there’s nothing white men can do about it. The government are not going to introduce any laws to protect white men from hate speech! Similarly, black people can say what they like about white people because 200 years ago there was slavery. Can you feel the power? On the Intersectionality totem there is only punching down. Punching up is not allowed. That is why Corbyn gets into hot water every time he has a pop at the Jews: he is breaking the first rule of Intersectionality Club.
Now the final bit is the bit that makes intersectionality so brilliant (and gives it its name): if you can claim to be a member of multiple oppressed victim groups you will gain thousands of extra victimhood points and unlock hidden levels higher up the Intersectionality pole. If you sit at the crossroads of multiple victimhood ‘intersections’ you will receive multiple invitations to appear on BBC shows so you can let people know how you feel society needs to be reorganised so that never again will a Lesbian, Transgender Muslim have to go through what you have been through.
I have described the fundamental building blocks of Intersectionality. Now, let’s start placing identity groups on the Intersectionality pole, starting from the bottom of the pole and working upwards. In doing so I will also explain the reasons why one identity group may be rated more highly than another group.
It shouldn’t be too hard to guess that white men are at the foot of the pole. This is because white men have been running the show since, like, forever and have made a right mess of everything. White men CANNOT be a victim EVER because they are the oppressors. They are always the oppressors and always will be the oppressors. With no claims to victimhood, they are at the bottom of the pole where they can be attacked by anyone else higher up the pole. However, attacking white men for how horrible and patriarchal they are still not make white men victims. White men can NEVER be victims because they are ALWAYS the oppressor even when they are being oppressed. See? It may take a while to fully appreciate the purity of this approach. If you are still having trouble I recommend you spend 2 minutes with any Social Justice Warrior who will make it crystal clear. In Intersectionality, you see, the oppressor becomes the oppressed. And vice verse. Marvelous.
But all is not lost if you are a white man: it is possible to rise ever so slightly higher up the pole if you are prepared to denounce all other white men. One of the ways this can be done is to announce that you are a feminist. Another way would be to declare that all white people are racist. The more you show your contempt and hate for your fellow white man, the more you can move slightly above them in terms of Intersectionality. The white men that are prepared to attack other men of their own race will still score less intersectionality points than any other group but at least they are higher placed than non-‘woke’ white men. That trade-off seems to be worth the accusations of ‘soyboy’, ‘traitor’ and ‘wanker’ for a certain type of emasculated man. These men are luxuriating in the fact that, at long last, mainstream culture places these Beta Males higher than Alpha Males. They have yet to realise that they are simply useful idiots that are not seen as a threat by anyone. Alpha Males are a known threat and must be treated as such. No one actually gives a damn about these soyboys. They are a joke, held in contempt by all. When full societal breakdown arrives, they will be the first to run as they know they are weak and despised by everyone for the traitorous running dogs that they are.
The next position on the intersectionality totem may be considered controversial: Jews. No one seems to like the Jews. They have slid down the ranking of oppressed groups in record time. In terms of victimhood you may have thought that events during WW2 would have given the Jews a pass for at least a couple of hundred years. But, no: here we are just over 70 years later and brave individuals on both left and right – but mainly left – are putting out feelers to determine what they can say in public about the Jews and get away with. The Labour party are bravely leading the way on this. Jews are no longer victims. Because of Israel. Or Harvey Weinstein. I have also seen some right wing pages posting some fairly unsavoury comments. This shows that if your identity group are economically successful you must be an oppressor and treated accordingly. End of. At this rate, Jews could be rock bottom of the totem in the near future – even beneath white men. That is certainly what Corbyn expects to happen which is why, every so often, he tests the water by making another anti-semitic ‘blunder’ or two to check if he gets in trouble for it. Not long now, Jeremy!
White women come next. Yes, they are near the bottom because they are white but they are women – who are definitely oppressed by men – so they rise above men on the totem. We all know that women have long been oppressed by men, forced to look after the children and the home while the men went out to war and did jobs they loathed in order to provide for their families. Luckily, women have now won the right to also work at jobs they loathe. Equality! Yaaay! But, when all is said and done, they are still white and are complicit in allowing the white patriarchy to exist for as long as it did. For that they can be hated on with impunity by anyone with more intersectional points than them. And let’s not forget that only white people are racist so that’s another reason to subject all white people to a daily ‘2 minutes hate’.
Beyond white people, the intersectional totem becomes less predictable and more volatile. Identity politics is a fast moving game and the various identity groups all loathe each other so they are all jostling for position on the totem. The interesting point to note, however, is that the groups themselves do not get to decide the placement of their own identity group on the Intersectionality totem. Not at all. They can agitate biblically in an effort to drum up support but the ultimate decision on intersectional relativity is made by white people in the media. The media reserves the right to promote and demote identity groups on the pole guided by both a desire to keep identity politics fresh and to promote new and interesting groups that will outrage traditionalists.
There are also Intersectionality differences from country to country. In the UK, black people come next – men first (natch) and then black women just above them. Black people in the UK are not agitating for more rights – i.e. power – in the UK in the same way that they are in the US. I put this down to the fact that there is not the prevalence of ‘Race Studies’ courses at Universities in the UK in the same way as there is in the US where such courses inflame an identity group’s sense of victimhood leading them to agitate for laws that will protect their group. Such laws enshrine the rules of intersectionality in ….well, law! For example, victim groups can retreat behind Hate Laws once they have finished their attacks on groups lower down the totem. Quotas are another good one so that your success as an identity group is no longer about meritocracy but merely a numbers game: The more there are of you, the more quotas will work in your favour. UK blacks are not agitating like this to any large degree. Black people have been in UK for a long time and have assimilated into British culture. As such, friction between the races has largely dissipated. Blacks are not taking advantage of their history of white oppression like they could do. For that reason, blacks score relatively few Intersectionality points in this round.
Muslims come next. A combination of well educated professional agitators, extreme sensitivity to criticism plus widespread condemnation for terrorist atrocities, female oppression, anti-gay bigotry; failure to assimilate; no-go zones; paedophile rape gangs and imposition of sharia law has seen the Muslim community run up huge numbers of victimhood points in a short space of time. Pleas to help this victimised group from further hurty words have reached the ears of the uppermost levels of government who have rapidly gone to work to put in place laws to stop people from ever mentioning any negative aspects of Islam ever again. When the government bends over backwards to do whatever it is you want them to do, that’s when you know you are high up the intersectional pole. Full respect.
Homosexuals are next. I assume homosexuals must sit above muslims in terms of victimhood points because we have yet to see widespread condemnation of homosexuals from muslims. The integrity of Intersectionality shines through. Homosexuals have come a long way in a short space of time and were top of the Intersectionality charts as recently as last Tuesday. However, we now have a new zhe in town…Transgenders!
Yes, transgenders are toppermost of the poppermost in Intersectionality land. Their meteoric rise over the last quarter of an hour has surprised many people. Not me, though. Transgenders are just men, basically, and I am well aware of what men can achieve when they put their minds to it. I have separated Transgenders from Homosexuals in the Interesection charts because Transgenders are the servants who have now superceded their masters. Transgenders are 5th in the LGBQT acronym. 5th! They were just an afterthought! They sheltered under that acronym while they gathered their strength and worked out how they could possibly takeover the cultural landscape. One day they realised that cutting off their johnsons was actually cutting off the very essence of who they were. They were losing the source of their power: testosterone. Once they realised that they could hold onto their dicks and still be women and still have sex with women they were ready to make their move. And they haven’t looked back. Using aggression as their weapon and hate speech laws as their shield they have revealed to the West the purity of their victimhood. No one can say anything detrimental about transgenders. No one can even ‘like’ anything that anyone says about transgenders. They are truly the victim’s victim. One victim to rule them all. Soon they will have the numbers to cement their place at the top of the totem for ever more as thousands of white men realise that merely by announcing themselves to be women they can leap from the very bottom to the very top of the Intersectionality totem in a single bound.
These are the victim building blocks of Intersectionality. I haven’t given every identity group their intersectional ranking for reasons of brevity. However, feel free to play at home: pick an identity group and use your knowledge of the cultural landscape to work out the relative Intersectionality using these two handy guides:
1. How the media – both mainstream and social – portrays that group relative to other groups
2 Which IGs are free to attack that group (and which cannot).
And don’t forget that if you belong to more than one of these groups your victim status will grow exponentially.
That, in a nutshell, is Intersectionality explained. It is fun for your whole dysfunctional family.
UPDATE: Here’s an article that references the divisiveness of Intersectionality
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