Hillary Clinton Tries to Grasp 'Intersectionality' to Understand the Mix of Race, Gender and Class

[sugartitty]

Does she get it?“Flint's water crisis is an example of the combined effects of intersecting issues that impact communities of color,” Hillary Clinton recently tweeted. She followed that up with a tweet that read, “We face a complex, intersectional set of challenges. We need solutions and real plans for all of them

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[burntbussy]

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Dying at Racism 2

[fishphile]

I'm not going to insult her intelligence and say she doesn't understand. I'm going to say that historically she hasn't proven to me that she is intersectional in regard to her policies, how she chooses to run her campaigns and who she chooses to be her spokespeople. Can she change? Yes. Will she change? I hope so, but I have little confidence that she won't continue the path she is going now and maybe take a hard turn right when she should be going more left.

[vindictaa]

lmao hillary and intersectionality. ya ok.

[moonshaz]

We face a complex, intersectional set of challenges. We need solutions and real plans for all of them.

I look at this, and I am glad to see that she's trying. She's acknowledging that intersectionality is a thing, and that the problems that face us are a lot more complex than most people think they are (or in some cases, want to acknowledge), which is something I haven't seen from any other politician in either major party (certainly none of the ones who have been vying for the nomination of either party).

This is certainly not an area, I might add, where Bernie Sanders shines.

And yet some people want to act like Hillary talking about intersectionality is a bad thing? Okay, whatever.

P.S. I honestly don't understand the points that either of the graphics posted by @leyawn are trying to make.

[lozbabie]

Hillary = bad is what they're trying to say.

The perfect response to people trying to understand intersectionality is to mock them and berate them for not doing it years earlier. Apparently unless your opinions are right from birth and you never ever change, don't bother.

[moonshaz]

Oh, I see! Thanks so much for the clarification. :-p

I guess I'm doomed, because I didn't know much about intersectionality until fairly recently. No wonder I support Hillary, lol!

[mimblexwimble]

You can't compare your level of knowledge to Clinton's, unless you're also running for president.

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“There is no such thing as a single issue struggle,” wrote pioneering Second Wave black feminist Audre Lorde, “because we do not lead single issue lives.”

Too real