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    [–]jet199 8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

    Also only problems due to oppression count. So a disabled person might have a whole host of physical or family problems but none of that is looked at in intersectionality, only the prejudice they might face counts. This is how we ended up with black trans women being considered the most oppressed group while 20 years ago it was black one-legged lesbians men would joke about taking their jobs in affirmative action.

    [–]lefterfield 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

    Well, not equally, but I agree that one of the biggest problems with it is that class and wealth are not "weighted" more than anything else. I suspect that the vast majority of discrepancies come to that, more so even than sex or race.