Intersectionality is all the Rage – Just Ask “Turtle Island Liberation Front”
Our Op-Ed in the NY Post: “Intersectionality” is the mother’s milk of the anti-American, anti-capitalist and anti-Western ideologues who have been ramping up their violence this year. But few Americans are focusing on this threat.
Intersectionality does not get the attention that Critical Race Theory and Diversity Equity and Inclusion receive, but it’s the source for CRT and DEI. It’s the mother’s milk of group identity theory.
Intersectionality received attention about a decade ago when “intersectional feminism” was a thing, but largely faded away from scrutiny as it’s offspring, CRT and DEI captured education and society, particularly post-George Floyd. But it never really went away. Intersectionality was repurposed as the foundation for attacking Israel by building racial and ethnic groups identity coalitions.
This photo I took in 2019 at a Cornell student assembly vote (which failed) on an anti-Israel boycott resolution captured how these “coalitions of color” come together. The NY Post used the photo with my permission in the print edition.
[Photo Credit: William Jacobson]
“Intersectionality” is the mother’s milk of the anti-American, anti-capitalist and anti-Western ideologues who have been ramping up their violence this year.
But few Americans are focusing on this threat — just look at the sparse coverage of the recently indicted Turtle Island Liberation Front.
On Tuesday, a bombshell grand-jury indictment alleged that the group plotted to use “weapons of mass destruction” to “completely pulverize” tech companies and other targets.
That means we’d better start paying attention — because intersectionality fuels the coalition of leftists, anarchists and Islamists intent on tearing down our country.
Intersectionality theory was developed in the late 1980s by law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw, who also coined the better-known term Critical Race Theory.
Crenshaw promoted CRT as a factor in employment law, arguing that black women face both race and sex discrimination in the workplace due to their intersecting identities.
Intersectionality advocates pushing the “marginalized” to take “collective action,” based on a narrative that casts every issue in terms of oppressors and oppressed.
“Structures of oppression are related,” Crenshaw held — and therefore, “struggles are linked.”
Crenshaw’s concept was a revolutionary wolf in sheep’s clothing, designed to fracture society into competing identities as a means of gaining leftist control — and it morphed into a monster, giving birth to diversity, equity and inclusion practices.
Every time someone claims a person or group is “marginalized,” that’s intersectionality at work, whether the speaker knows it or not.
This group-identity mindset urges the “marginalized” to unite against oppressors, using a toxic mix of economic, sexual and racial/ethnic identities as its fuel.
Intersectionality has been the dominant ideology on campus for two decades, and in recent years it’s chosen Israel as its point of attack.
It does so by bringing “marginalized” groups that have nothing in common together — for example, proclaiming “Palestine is a feminist issue” even though Palestinian society is one of the most patriarchal and misogynistic in the world.
It’s what fuels “Queers for Palestine” — even though actual gays and lesbians wouldn’t last a day in any Palestinian city or village.
We see it up close at Cornell, where the graduate student union recently announced a boycott of Israel, asserting “We free Palestine, and Palestine frees us.”
Campus student groups organize based on color and ethnicity to combat Israel, the supposed white oppressor.
Intersectionality is the gateway drug isolating Jewish students on campus.
But like so many other toxic ideologies, what started on campuses didn’t stay on campuses — and what started with Jews and Israel has spread to a more general hatred of the United States, capitalism and Western civilization.
We have intersectionality to thank for the widespread rot in higher education, as it works to “dismantle the persistent colonial structures and Eurocentric biases” of academia.
Worse, intersectionality has become the ideology of terror — the next logical step for a worldview that pits people against each other based on group identity.
Enter the Turtle Island Liberation Front and its heavily transgender membership, a walking embodiment of intersectionality.
This month, five members of the group were indicted for allegedly planning to bomb multiple targets in California beginning on New Year’s Eve, and accused of plotting to target ICE agents as well.
“Turtle Island” is the intersectional term used for North America, a name based on Native American lore.
The United States has no legitimacy under TILF’s intersectional creed, and tearing it down by any means is its goal.
The Justice Department’s criminal complaint describes TILF as an “anti-capitalist, anti-government movement” that calls for “liberation of their lands and people, and decolonization and tribal sovereignty.”
“From Turtle Island to Palestine, occupation is a crime,” its members declare — and as their well-developed terror plans indicate, they are serious about forcing “revolutionary change.”
The TILF indictment should be a warning siren to President Donald Trump, whose administration has worked to defang CRT and DEI — but has paid little attention to intersectionality.
Yet CRT and DEI are the symptoms; intersectionality is the source.
As Trump heads into his second year, he must confront this radically dangerous ideology.
Intersectionality must be incorporated into existing executive orders and administrative actions focused on unwinding DEI.
Issuing a new order clarifying that DEI expressly includes intersectionality would help mitigate the damage being done, both within government and through government-funded programs.
Intersectionality’s toxic influence must be confronted head-on: The future of our education system and the safety of our nation depend upon it.
If not, we’ll certainly see more Turtle Island Liberation Fronts — and more violence.
William A. Jacobson is a clinical professor of law at Cornell University and founder of the Equal Protection Project, where Kemberlee Kaye is managing director.
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Not higher education but higher indoctrination. A boatload of debt for a worthless degree.
Ok, you’ve been spelling the possessive its with a comma in several pieces recently. I know you know better.
You mean apostrophes?
Yes, an uncontrolled urge to apostrophize. I be due for a spankin’, no?
One It. Multiple Its.
Excellent article that unties the gordian knot of rhetorical nonsense behind these communist pukes.
Thank you.
The vile, stupid and evil Dhimmi-crat neo-communists/Islamofascists are religiously and fanatically committed to the Bolshevik/jihadist causes.
Not a single Dhimmi-crat apparatchik — either someone currently holding political office, or, a retired, elder radical [“statesman”] — has stood up to urge the Dhimmi-crat Party to move toward the political center, to reject political violence/intimidation/thuggery, and to moderate its fanatical urges and bloodlust. Not a single one. That tells you everything that you need to know about the profound depths of unrepentant wickedness and evil that we’re dealing with, here.
The only intersectionality that makes sense is that between raging pile of shit and dumpster fire as applied to the Turtle Island clowns.
“Intersectionality does not get the attention that Critical Race Theory and Diversity Equity and Inclusion receive, but it’s the source for CRT and DEI.”
Right, they’re pretty hopelessly intertwined, which is why some of us really don’t think of them as needing to be addressed as separate issues. You need all three legs to make the National Potty Chair, and without any one of them, it falls over.
In an age where DEI is finally under official attack and in painful retreat, I look at those who cling to intersectionality like fans of Milli Vanilli. They can still organize and prioritize their hierarchy of grievances like dozens of little Lego blocks, but in the absence of DEI, they simply can’t do anything about them. Except for kvetching in official meetings and on the street, which they could always do and will always be able to do.
It’s hard to see them as a threat anymore when the DOJ is outflanking them and directly destroying their only real enforcement capabilities.
They not only intertwine they intersect!
Intersectionality is the new Marxism. Classical Marxism posited that all history must be understood as the result of conflicts between the proletariat (oppressed) and bourgeoisie (oppressors). Capitalism, and most particularly American capitalism, effectively refuted this idea through the ability of poor and middle class peoples to become upwardly mobile and to join the wealthy. Class is evidently not an enduring classification for the oppressed and the oppressors. So back to the drawing board for Marxists. Race – now that is something that can’t be shed. But given that the ethnic group in America with the highest family income are Asian Indians mean white Euro-Americans are 32nd in order along with a rising mixed race population, perhaps race might not be a solid determinant of the oppressed. Now intersectionality might be the thing. But unfortunately dicing up the self assessed victimized per intersectionality results in smaller and smaller groups of the oppressed. The beauty of American capitalism is that it bestows a certain agency upon the people. While becoming billionaires might be unrealistic for the vast majority, it is quite realistic for any American to aspire to and achieve a decent life. Because of the upward mobility inherent in American capitalism, intersectionality is ultimately not going to rescue Marxism – at least for those who are not clinging to the religious belief that “victims” have no agency in America.. What to me is astonishing is the resiliency of Marxism – a stale creed with an abysmal record – as an enduring engine for political and philosophical thought.
Class doesn’t work well in America where there are effectively no classes except in the fevered brains of coastal democrats and those don’t count. What matters is color, race, ethnic group, sex, sexual orientation – inherent aspects of all Americans and ones that can’t change, What’s more if you have these as the base of your intersectionality analysis they can be additive. This leads to the present intersectional victimhood pyramid with the only thing fixed is that white male heterosexuals are at the bottom.
Of course nothing is ever perfect in Marxistland and who screws things up are male heterosexual Jews, Indians, Asians, and Hispanics occasionally. They way the nutjobs fix things in their oppression Olympics is to call such groups white adjacent and therefore for all practical purposes white, Alls now right with the world and it becomes clear who is oppressed and who is oppressing no matter the actual facts. Marx smiles and is pleased.
The popularity of “something for nothing” will never ebb.
don’t forget “and your chicks for free..”
Yes, but once you get there, more than half your chicks end up being dudes.
Those Turtle Island worthies have a few yards to go in constructing their ‘bombshell’ devastation. They were busily mixing sulfur, charcoal and potassium nitrate out in the California desert to make gunpowder – no more advanced than the Spanish conquistadores who preceded them eight hundred years ago, who used exactly that mix to blow away the outraged Indians whom they invaded.
Intersectionality is nothing more than a political coalition against a common enemy. In other words, the Feminists, Race Hustlers, Queers, and Jihadists can’t outvote their enemies on their own, so they must combine forces. They have different interests, and if any of them took power they would immediately turn on each other, but they have a common interest in keeping the Christian Right out of power at all costs.
And germane to this topic, the timely musings of today’s installment of Calvin and Muad’Dib:
If I’m not mistaken, Derrick Bell, former Dean of the University of Oregon Law School and later Harvard Law professor, was the one who came up with Critical Race Theory. Not Ms. Crenshaw.
Bell is to Crenshaw as Tim Paterson is to Bill Gates.
Gates did all the hustle and took all the credit.
more like the turtle brain front.
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