The dumb prof considers intersectionality in the Age of Trump

• Main Author: TSE, Justin Kh
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2017
• Subjects: Identity politics; intersectionality; American Politics; Ethics and Political Philosophy
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/3352; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/4609/viewcontent/Dumb_prof_Age_of_Trump_2017_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Among decent, intelligent, and respectable human beings in the United States and around the world, the occupation of Donald Trump of the American presidency is the shock that never ends. Much of this has to do with how vulgar the man is. The activist-academic terms intersectionality and identity politics have in turn entered into our popular vocabulary as words that might describe how all of these aggrieved groups might resist the Trump Administration. This resistance, it is claimed, is necessary because these various groups have not only been insulted by Trump’s rhetoric, but have also been oppressed by draconian policies either passed during Trump’s first 100 days or spoken of by way of rumor.