Will Shetterly
1 min readMar 2, 2022

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The problem with the neoliberal theory of intersectionality: https://medium.com/a-universalist-in-an-identitarian-age/the-disconnectionality-of-intersectionality-f1341b1012c3

1. I didn't say you were an American.

2. I pointed out that you appear to belong to a group that in America is very privileged. Just as many white people are not privileged by any reasonable standard, your membership in a very privileged group does not mean you yourself are very prvileged.

Now, I grant that the name and photo you are using may have been appropriated.

3. I realize you think it's a privilege for poor white people to be desperately poor. I have never met a privilege theorist who wanted to change places with a poor white person, so I have trouble taking seriously the claim that it is a privilege to be poor and white in the 21st century. I completely agree that poor white people had a few privileges during Jim Crow.

What the New York numbers show is a targeting of poor people, who, in New York, are disproportionately black. Try doing an internet search on "place not race".

I did not say a word about your character, and the list of points above show that I dealt with specific claims. I have no reason to doubt that you are a lovely person, but like many privileged people who are lovely people, you'd rather focus on race than class.

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Will Shetterly
Will Shetterly

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