I think you might have misunderstood the scope of this post. I want to emphasise that I endorse none of the following claims:
[a white person can never] understand or model the discrimination or pain faced by a (for example) queer, poor, Black and Muslim individual.
it’s pointless for a male to study female psychology because a male will never understand what it’s like to be female and should instead have no voice in the conversation
diversity and “equity” and “justice” [are] innate, disseminated values, rather than potential or circumstantial instrumental ones for prior lauded ends.
[EA] is somehow inherently in the wrong or discriminatory or evil for ending up mostly male, white, secular, tech based etc.
if your goal is to maximize diversity then you need intersectionality
you have to shame people for making assumptions or holding beliefs about those who are part of other [social] categories
If we remove these claims and just consider whether intersectionality would be a useful tool (of many different possible tools) for helping EAs think through difficult ideas, would this change your position at all?
I think you might have misunderstood the scope of this post. I want to emphasise that I endorse none of the following claims:
If we remove these claims and just consider whether intersectionality would be a useful tool (of many different possible tools) for helping EAs think through difficult ideas, would this change your position at all?