MSNBC Contributor's Misogynistic Smear of Bernie Staffers: 'Island of Misfit Black Girls'

[Uncle Joe]

MSNBC contributor Dr. Jason Johnson (he would like us to not forget that he has a Ph.D., and I’ll do my best not to throughout this piece) said Friday on SiriusXM’s The Karen Hunter Show that the “racist white liberals” who apparently love Bernie Sanders (news to me) are coming after black people who don’t fall into Sanders’ so-called “orthodoxy” (again, that Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign represents an orthodoxy, in the context of the Democratic Party, I have never heard before).

Dr. Johnson believes that Sanders is not “intersectional,” which his host and fellow guest—both black women—seemed to agree with him about, though it’s unclear that he knows either what intersectionality—as defined by critical race theory scholar Kimberlé Crenshaw—means or its true context and ever-evolving political purpose.

In the paper Intersectionality: Mapping the Movements of a Theory, authors Crenshaw, Devon W. Carbado, Vickie M. Mays, and Barbara Tomlinson seek to explain the slipperiness of intersectionality as a tool (and not an ideology) as well as the ways in which “all intersectional moves are necessarily particularized and therefore provisional and incomplete.” A movement or political campaign, for that matter, cannot wholly be described as “intersectional,” if you’re using the term correctly.

“Rooted in Black feminism and Critical Race Theory,” the authors write, “intersectionality is a method and a disposition, a heuristic and analytic tool.” It is not a simple adjective you can tack onto whichever campaign you think talks about the specific policy needs of black women enough. The theory of intersectionality was developed by Crenshaw in order to analyze specifically how the “vulnerabilities of women of color, particularly those from immigrant and socially disadvantaged communities” are ignored or marginalized in “not only antidiscrimination law but also in feminist and antiracist theory and politics.”

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/msnbc-star-dr-jason-johnsons-misogynistic-smear-of-bernie-sanders-staffers-island-of-misfit-black-girls

[Squinch]

1. Poor, poor Bernie. Everyone is against him. Well, not everyone.