With its emphasis on group identity, present-day intersectionality is rooted in a collectivist worldview. An article in the Huffington Post by Lyz Lenz entitled ‘Women Are Evil’ exemplifies this approach, assuming that white women are inherently privileged and a ‘menace’ that has ‘yet to be reckoned with’. Likewise, the author and diversity consultant Robin DiAngelo insists that treating people equally irrespective of the colour of their skin is ‘dangerous’, because it fails to account for oppressive power structures which are embedded in society. So we are in the bizarre situation where a
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