Some injustices should be understood intersectionally, as... — Carmelics

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Some injustices should be understood intersectionally, as responses to intersectional categories rather than to a single identity factor

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1.An individual may stand out in a group due to race, class, or sexuality, making them a target for injustice
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2.When the form of injustice is regarded as especially apt for a woman (or other intersecting identity), the injustice responds to the combination of identity factors, not just one
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3.The rape of Bosnian women targeted victims both because they were Bosnian and because they were women
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1.Causal explanations of injustice can be decomposed into separable contributing factors without positing irreducible intersectional categories.
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2.The Bosnian rape case is explicable as ethnic persecution using gendered methods—two distinct causes operating in sequence, not a fused intersectional category.
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3.Postulating sui generis intersectional categories beyond their constituent parts violates parsimony and risks infinite regress as identity axes multiply.
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