Intersectionality: Disney Writer vs. Ben Shapiro | Short Clips | PragerU

say that like I I think white women need to kind of step up their game to be quite honest like sorry but I'm calling I'm calling out like um you really do cuz like you know there's like we can I couldn't agree more with everything that that these brilliant women are saying but like I'm also seeing the silent killer which is a lot of white women at the top who are kind of reinforcing a lot of old ideas they're if you're now thinking what the hell are you talking about you haven't spent much time on a modern college campus intersectionality is a form of identity politics in which the value of your opinion depends on how many victim groups you belong to at the bottom of the totem pole is the person everybody loves to hate the straight white male and who's at the top well it's very hard to say because new groups claim victim status all the time no one can keep track so how does this intersectionality thing play out something like this let's say you're a gay white woman as as a queer woman your opinion matters but less than that of a gay black woman why because while all women are oppressed by the patriarchy and all gays are oppressed by the heterosexual majority blacks have a victim status that whites obviously don't like the guy at the Top's louder it's it's harder to say like I think this should be a black writer of course a gay black woman's victim status is less than that of a black transwoman who ranks below a black Muslim transwoman and so on the more memberships you can claim in oppressed group groups the more grieved you are and the higher you rank get it good because it's about to get even more complicated intersectionality takes your victim status and uses it as the basis for creating alliances with other victim groups I'll just speak from my own personal experience it's just like I wasn't sure how to be an ally I wasn't sure what type I got so caught up in like what kind of terminology I was supposed to be using here's the logic a black gay and a Hispanic gay may not belong to the same victim group racially but they do belong to the same victim group on the basis of their sexuality by focusing on the places where various victim identities intersect intersectionality creates a United Us Versus Them Paradigm righteous victims rising up together to fight the oppressor those dreaded straight white men this explains why at a rally protesting the treatment of Palestinians by Israel you might see a contingent of lesbian activists that's intersectionality at work they're so United by their victim status that it doesn't matter if islamists throw gays off of buildings or murder female family members who defy their fathers wishes victim solidarity trumps all other considerations that some Professor tucked away in an ivory Tower would come up with this nonsense is not surprising what is surprising and disturbing is that so many people actually go along with it as I started to rise in television I started to just get more blunt and just start saying like I would like a black writer because if I said diverse you know you you get you get well white is diverse which is something somebody said to me and I was like wow um uh I was like it's not cool but um but but to really you know I I reached out to my you know um uh the women that I respect who are who are not white um writers and directors and I said what should I say what what Lang how what language should I use you know and and I think it's worth it if you're in a position of um hiring power or or uh greenlighting Power to like reach out to people that are not like you and say what can I do to be an ally and and how can I how can I support um writers of color and um um LG lgbtq and disabled writers like what can I do intersectionality promotes the biggest hoax of all that we aren't individuals who are to be judged on the basis of how we act but are merely members of groups to be judged on the basis of our group identity in other words you and I as individuals with our unique experiences thoughts and Ambitions count for nothing our racial and sexual identity count for everything it's hard to imagine an idea less likely to produce a free and equal America than that but what do I know I'm just a straight white male I'm Ben Shapiro for Prager University thank you for watching this video to help keep prageru videos free please consider making a tax deductible donation