The Heritage Foundation's Jonathan Butcher says society separates itself based on numerous factors like race, ethnicity, religion, politics, gender, and sexuality. Now, San Diego State University's Pride Center has reportedly added weight to the list.
"Anti-Fatness/fatphobia is intrinsically rooted in anti-Blackness racism, classism, misogyny, homophobia, and many other systems of oppression," it claims.
Based on that description, Butcher says so-called "fatphobia" is attached to intersectionality and oppression.
"The idea is that there are multiple ways in which individuals can be oppressed, and all of the oppression is systemic," he explains. "According to intersectionality, Western society is just set up to oppress certain people, and the oppression can be multi-layered. Intersectionality encompasses some of the applications of critical race theory as the pursuit of victimhood."
The goal, he says, is to destroy the current system of government. But a big problem with it is it is difficult to pin down exactly what the issue is; all they know is it is "systemic," or caused by the way in which the representative nation operates politically, socially, and culturally.
The systemic nature also means there has to be some sort of systemic solution.
"Those who are in favor of intersectionality are going to claim that there has to be some big, institutional – i.e. governmental – structure that has to be torn down or replaced or destroyed in order for the oppression to be eased or released," Butcher notes.
That is how critical race theory goes from a philosophical concept to an actual set of practical steps that would take down structures of society. But as Butcher points out, another big problem with those who follow intersectionality and critical race theory is "they have never posted clear solutions for what they want to replace things with … once they've torn down society."
That, he says, leaves a revolution without a resolution.
He submits that instead of telling young people they should be looking for oppression in the culture around them, they should be learning to take responsibility for their actions, to have agency over their choices.
