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    LoyalLoyalJusticeJustice
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    It is not the case that Some injustices should be understood intersectionally, as responses to intersectional categories rather than to a single identity factor

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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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    • 1.Iris Marion Young's structural account of oppression attributes injustice to institutional structures and practices, not to perpetrators' recognition of intersectional identities.
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    • 2.If injustice is structurally produced, the perpetrator's perceptual categories—whether intersectional or single-axis—are epiphenomenal to the moral analysis of the wrong.
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    • 3.Grounding claims about injustice in perpetrator recognition conflates the epistemic framing of harm with its deeper structural and material causes.
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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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