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Well stated. I honestly believe that intersectionality is the most strategically brilliant and evil idea to emerge from the late 20th century. It takes a simple, easily understood truth and fashions it into a rubric that determines social position based on superficial identity categories. That's no accident, either - in Mapping the Margins Kimberle Crenshaw basically admits that it's not so much the case that racism and other -isms are a problem, but rather that we just haven't been applying them correctly. It's a power-grab that emboldens the most controlling and attention-seeking types of people and doesn't actually help the groups it pretends to champion.