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Tal Fortgang
Commentary
Excerpt: Intersectionality is in crisis. It is reeling from the Republican-led assault on left-wing radicalism, retreating to its campus redoubt. If it passes from our public discourse, its epitaph should read: “Often wrong, never in doubt.”
Triumphalism is premature, though. During its brief, wondrous heyday as a progressive shibboleth, intersectionality exerted enormous power over American life. Intersectional ideas fueled BLM, the Women’s March, and gender ideology, all of which blended into one “omnicause.” It is on the decline, but the underlying ideas that ignited it in the first place may persist. Ensuring that intersectionality dies and stays dead requires understanding those ideas and developing the vocabulary to explain why the movement that intersectionality spawned inevitably fails.
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