Intersectionality and Identity Politics - Lecture 1: 'Introduction to the Concepts' by David French

David French, Senior Writer at National Review delivers a series of lectures on intersectionality and identity politics.

[tamdai]

We are all supposed to be unique individuals. Don’t assume, : share, listen and learn. I have learned a lot here. Thank you sir.

[Karlopapa]

I have never heard rubish like that in my entire life. America as a society seems to be switching to self-destruction mode at a rate of knots.

[DanielPaulAbraham]

25:46 "If you are fully involved in intersectionality, you don't wake up in the morning wondering what you're doing with your life."
God and his kingdom should give you a sense of purpose, not intersectionality. David French is advocating for us to have an identity outside of Christ. This is where wokeness and this obsession to correct all past wrongs, replaces God.

[resilientrecoveryministries]

DF stands up for a very unpopular view: freedom of speech. Everyone wants freedom of speech for themselves and censure of speech for their opponents. It's clear from the comments that people from both sides of the political spectrum don't like him because he doesn't advocate for shutting down the other side.

[troymcintosh]

I believe his description of privileged authority is a bit confused. Being a part of an identity group does include a participation in shared experiences, whether or not a specific experience has been shared by every participant. The ivy league black org leader HAS shared experiences across the same continuum.

[jasper]

I don’t quite see the link between intersectionality and experiential authority. These seem to be different ideas since you could have a single stand-alone identity used as experiential authority, and in fact use this as an example .

[SAOProductions]

I appreciate the attempt by Mr. French to bring some sort of balance to the subject - yet in the final analysis, given the fact that Intersectionality as a way of understanding our world and to the extent it is the practical application of an outworking of Critical Race Theory, (placing people into groups and providing their identity based solely on those groups they belong to) the starting point to understanding is being willing as a Christian to readily admit the whole premise of intersectionality is NOT to be granted - even when there may be "nuances".

[rlpsychology]

David will be remembered as a brother so delusional that his advocacy supported the World Religion.

[stevenmerritt]

Hypothetically, suppose I said christians shouldn't have the right to marry. Should that be tolerated? What if I said christians shouldn't have the right to run for public office like christians have passed laws in a number of states banning atheists from running for public office. Should that be tolerated? Suppose I start trying to push for these things and I get fired, is that OK?

The question we are asking is where does tolerance end and unacceptable begin. I'm not sure where that is, but I don't understand a world in which saying "gay people shouldn't be allowed to get married" is OK but "christians shouldn't be allowed to get married" isn't. To be clear: I would NOT say that either gay people or christians should not be allowed to marry. Both gay people and christians have the right to marry if they wish and should have that right. The above statements were introduced as hypothetical because that is what they are, hypothetical. They are not views that I am supporting here.

[Magnulus]

This stuff is just common sense. In any group, it's activists, who have distinct psychological profiles complete with their own implicit biases, who tend to speak for a group as a whole, and not necessarily people with actual experience of the issue at hand.

[DanielPaulAbraham]

David French is somebody who is very familiar with Christian theology but believes none of it.

[jasper]

Arguably the right wing also has a form of secular religion: civil religion, and it is arguably more overt and arguably just as dangerous to biblical Christianity (or contradictory to loving your enemy and blessing those who persecute you). The only difference is that it’s an internal issue and people would rather externalize.

[bman]

FURTHER PROOF THAT ONE NEED NOT BE SMART TO BE INTELLIGENT.

[wesholmes]

Doesn't sound like a scholar critically analyzing culture. Just sounds like some dude winging it. Southern can do better.