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Issues of poverty are being neglected by social justice movements because of the overwhelming focus on sexuality...

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MaryRoseSatOnAPin · 23/10/2019 14:26

...a comment heard at a conference today.

Would you agree? The person who made the comment was speaking from a Latin American context, criticising the Western focus towards the developing world. Has the West disappeared down a wormhole of LGBTQ+ rights whilst people in the global South, ignored, continue to starve?

I'm an avid lurker on the feminism boards, but haven't posted before. Asking here because you are a knowledgeable bunch - someone, somewhere must have written articles on this, but I can't find anything! It is a controversial viewpoint, but I'd be interested to read more.

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tumbleisatwat · 23/10/2019 14:54

I think the left has lost the plot but, it has always had a habit of getting distracted by pointless causes.

Palestine, trans stuff, occupy, extinction rebellion...

The right seem more focused which is why they are winning and we're all fucked.

DuMondeB · 23/10/2019 14:52

Unfortunately, the only publications who are commenting on this phenomenon are dismissed as ‘right wing’ so getting people to look at the bigger picture is very hard.

The Spectator and Brendan O’Neill’s Spiked website are unafraid of controversial topics and the Heterodox academy is trying to address the problems of rigid intersectionality-obsessed thinking within universities: heterodoxacademy.org/the-problem/ and you might find stuff that interests you on Quilette:
quillette.com/

There are lots of podcasts around this topic (I listen to stuff on YouTube all the time whilst doing other stuff). Douglas Murray is currently promoting his new book, The Madness of Crowds, so is on all of them. I’m going to buy the book as an audio and listen to it (renovating a house alone = lots of time for thinking about things).
m.youtube.com/channel/UC7oPkqeHTwuOZ5CZ-R9f-6w

Lisa Muggeridge writes and speaks on this topic but mostly in a personal capacity these days - she is the person who has most opened my eye to the damage interscetionality is doing to truly vulnerable people:

www.trebuchet-magazine.com/intersectionality/

HorseWithNoFucksToGive · 23/10/2019 14:50

Link?

anomoony · 23/10/2019 14:34

And class is also ignored in favour of idpol.

tumbleisatwat · 23/10/2019 14:34

Yep. Completely.

There is a thread on here somewhere where a woman claims to feel 'under attack' because Always took the fanny symbol off the packet.

It's insane.

DuMondeB · 23/10/2019 14:30

Yes!

Not just elsewhere in the world but here too. Identity politics (of all kinds) are forefront and actual societal issues such as poverty and homelessness and crime is pushed to the back burner.

It’s infuriating.

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