A primer on Woke jargon

As the City of San Jon ose kicks off its racial sensitivity training programs, we look to Robby Soave at Reason magazine to provide a quick lesson on understanding the vocabulary of the movement.

"Intersectionality" is the operating system for the modern left. Understanding what it means and where it comes from is essential for comprehending the current state of activism and at protests in major cities.

Put simply, the idea is that various kinds of oppression--racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, economic inequality, and others--are simultaneously distinct from each other and inherently linked. They are distinct in the sense that they stack: A Black woman suffers from two kinds of oppression (racism and sexism), whereas a white woman suffers from just one (sexism). But they are also interrelated, in that they are all forms of oppression that should be opposed with equal fervor. For instance a feminist who isn't sufficiently worked up about the rights of the gay community is at odds with the tenets of intersectionality. She is a feminist, but she is not an intersectional feminist.

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