But does that mean that women and people of color should think of themselves as “colonized populations” today? Would doing so empower them, or would it encourage an external locus of control? Would it make them more or less likely to engage with their teachers and readings, work hard, and benefit from their time in school? More generally, what will happen to the thinking of students who are trained to see everything in terms of intersecting bipolar axes where one end of each axis is marked “privilege” and the other is “oppression”? Since “privilege” is defined as the “power to dominate” and to
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This is interesting - the authors seem not to be arguing against the truth of the proposition, but against it's efficacy in addressing the identified problems. So in this case the conclusions of intersectionality may be correct but the system is inherently difficult to develop constructive remedies from and an alternative approach is needed for those.
