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> The point of using the terminology of “intersectionalism,” as Crenshaw said in her 2016 TED Talk, is that “where there’s no name for a problem, you can’t see a problem, and when you can’t see a problem, you pretty much can’t solve it.”

Ever notice how, every time a term for extreme-Left activists begins to gain traction among the general public, they begin militantly campaigning to discredit the term and anyone who uses it? "Politically correct." "Social Justice Warrior." "Woke." Same story every time.

Crenshaw offers a perfect explanation as to why this always happens.

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> A few days later, a group of roughly 150 students appeared in the courtyard outside Christakis’s home (within Silliman College), writing statements in chalk, including “We know where you live.” Erika’s husband, Nicholas Christakis, was the master of Silliman (a title that has since been changed to “head of college”).

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> The next day, the president of the university sent out an email acknowledging students’ pain and committing to “take actions that will make us better.” He did not mention any support for the Christakises until weeks after the courtyard incident, by which time attitudes against the couple were entrenched. Amid ongoing demands that they be fired, Erika resigned from her teaching position, Nicholas took a sabbatical from teaching for the rest of the year, and at the end of the school year, the pair resigned from their positions in the residential college. Erika later revealed that many professors were very supportive privately, but were unwilling to defend or support the Christakises publicly because they thought it was “too risky” and they feared retribution.

Abject cowardice on the part of the administration and the other professors. The appropriate response to such thuggery is to round up the 150 students in question, summarily expel every last one of them for making threats of violence on campus, and have police escort them off campus.

Why? Because when you don't, what you get is... well... the rest of this chapter!

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