At The Personalist Project: The Ethical Activist

I’ve been mulling over the evolution of modern activism, the assumption that different activist groups using the same ideological terminology and basis SHOULD be natural allies, and the reality that they very rarely seem to be. The organization of last month’s Woman’s March was plagued by accusations of racial insensitivity and exclusion of disability rights. The whole “intersectionality” concept is an attempt to address these divides; it appears to be used instead as an internecine weapon, widening them.

And I think it’s a breakdown in premises. I think there is a flaw built into these activist ideologies at some basic level that makes them break down when in relation to other vulnerable groups of grievances.

My intuition is that this poison was injected with the inclusion of abortion as a key platform in the feminist proposition…

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