Comic Strips

Bernie didn't lose by focusing on black people, he lost because the entire DNC apparatus worked against him.

Tell them to give the land back and they lose their shit.

It's always ironic to see non-native Americans talk about stopping illegal immigration, like hahaha it's not so funny now is it.

The white woman is being hypocritical in not applying intersectionality when it doesn’t affect her.

And the guy is wrong.

I understand the comic is pointing out hypocrisy. But I also see it as illustrating how perspective can shift depending on where one stands, especially if one does not already have a clear understanding of what intersectionality is and can intellectualize it. Both the guy and the woman do not seem to be portrayed as evil people, just misguided.

The black woman still sees the same underlying point, and the white woman now feels "left out". And perhaps she is next. In pops the Muslim woman.

Though this is clearly not the intended result, one must recognize that this is an underlying point of attack, an exploitable weakness. Bitterness can be created to break groups that otherwise have common interests apart, and without the overall coalition there is no power to enact change.

Ultimately, Black feminism is part of a broader feminist goal that is part of a broader humanist goal. We are together, we are aligned.

The point is that people generally have trouble seeing others' struggles they themselves don't face.

I wouldn't see it as being right or wrong. Both white folks in the comic would benefit from a broadening of perspective is all.

The white guy doesn't understand why a unique space is needed for women and gets an explanation.

The white lady doesn't understand why a unique space is needed for black women and gets an explanation.

Anyone with a cursory understanding of history, particularly modern colonial history, where Europeans and their descendants actively dabbled in propoganda/a worldview that white = human and nonwhite = non/subhuman (culminating in Nazism) would understand this but our education system often avoids these difficult topics. Women were not able to hold credit up until the 70s and so their financial security depending entirely on their husband, depriving them of agency.

Unfortunately we can't just flip a switch and make this history and its legacy disappear. I don't blame the people portrayed in this comic. I blame inadequate education.

The issue is turning around and attacking others trying to fight for what they fight for.

Intersectionality requires supporting each other.

Except the entire state of the world is what's responsible for the problems of your immediate group. When you focus on your immediate group you're not only merely treating a symptom, but you're also suggesting your problems are somehow more important than another group's problems.

What's worse is that people of a specific group will literally say their problems are more important, and then proceed to create a stereotype of another group to blame all those problems on. The struggle then moves away from real problems and then becomes all about defeating some sort of perceived enemy. A process which only achieves dividing us further.

A lot of the world's problems, both socially and economically, come from the same handful of sources that are continuing to thrive, unchecked, while we fight amongst ourselves. Remove those sources and you will have solved the lion's share of the problems your group shares, as well as the problems other groups have.

The issue that:

Most people

Are not you, and that a large percentage of the ruling classes do not want:

equality, justice, freedom and peace

Otherwise inequality, injustice, slavery, and war wouldn't exist. So we, the just indigenous liberators for peace have to fight against them lest we live by their oppressions.

Who is saying it is only under feminism?

Intersectionality is not 'splitting', that's a very doomer binary way to view it. The only 'splitting' here is the white woman turning on her ally and doing the same thing the man was doing in the first panel.

One big movement can be made up of many small movements, intersectionality is recognising how all these small groups operate together and influence each other. For example a gay black persons experiences are different from a black hetero persons and a gay white persons, yet they can also relate to aspects of each other. So when you fight for your allies, you learn their unique issues and visa versa.

Intersectionality is viewing discrimination as a Venn diagram, but it's the same fight.