Because it widely breaks down to the same sort of discrimination. Feminism without anti-racism means that the discrimination we see towards women won't disappear, it'll just be shifted towards people of color. How successful is your movement if all you did was export the bad shit to other people so it's not your problem anymore?

If the response to "Women shouldn't have to do housework" is "Yes! Juanita should do the housework!" Then something failed.

[–] RobbieGM@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This seems to assume that there's a certain fixed amount of "bad shit" that must be placed on one minority or another. If I eliminated all police brutality (which in the US disproportionately is aimed at black people), does that somehow make things any worse for women?

[–] MemeCollector@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Do... Do you think Black women don't exist?

[–] RobbieGM@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you just not even making an attempt to understand my point? In this scenario, of course black women would benefit, as they'd experience no police brutality. My point is that this magical elimination of a racial inequality problem would not make a gender related issue (e.g. the wage gap) automatically worse somehow, which seemed to be Leylaa's point if I'm understanding that correctly.

[–] TotallynotJessica@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They said it in a slightly incorrect way. It's not like there's an unaddressable amount of discrimination that gets shifted over. It's that other forms of bigotry can fester in a movement if diverse voices are not part of the conversation. Intersectionality is about praxis: not just theory, but how movements practically function as well.

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