I know for a fact that a lot of jobs try to work around and find a way to hire people that fit their status quo without being accused of racism. We talked about this in class during either our first or second day of class. Jobs will often claim that you need to be able to do certain stuff to work for them, even if it is something that we will never have to do at the job. Jobs are just trying to discriminate without being called out for it. Intersectionality is just one of their many attempts to do so.
To prevent people from calling them out, companies decided to hire black people and women but not black women. Which is an even worse cause of discrimination, if you think about it. At least, in my opinion, because I would rather have someone show me their true self them have them hide what they really think. Even if I were to hate both of them.
A lot of us are intersectional if we think about it. About 10% of the world is gay and an additional 15% are bi. Let's say that about half of that population is either non-white or women, that would leave about 17% of the world at risk of facing discrimination without a court taking their case seriously. Now this might not seem like a lot, but let's think about black women who make up about 25% of the world. Now, sure some of those black women are part of the LGBT community which, let's say it's 5%. That still leaves 37% of people to be at risk of facing intersectional discrimination. That's before we even add in people with disabilities.
That's a large percentage of the world at risk for police brutality, no's from jobs and even no's from schools. Just on account of what they were born as.
Personally, I know that as an LGBT Hispanic woman, I could have faced these issues without even realizing it.
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