Opinion of Amy Schumer

[Associate Justice PiT]

     I don't really find her to be funny.

[Associate Justice PiT]

In short, while I can't feel sorry for them-- or at least Dunham-- both have been denounced for having committed the grave felony of having been insufficiently deferential towards black people.

Wow.  I wish I never opened that link!  It has to be EXHAUSTING to be offended so easily.

"Exhausting" is definitely a word I have seen unironically used by such people in this context, although they usually claimed to have been worn out by the constant injustice, or something of this sort. This meant, by extension, keeping pace with all the things which were supposed to engender a sense of righteous outrage, and who had fallen out of favor by falling afoul of the the outlook I mentioned previously. It was made to sound rather physically taxing.

     Spending all that time trying to figure out if everything is a manifestation of white supremacy and therefore something to complain about seems like it would be physically taxing.

[Associate Justice PiT]

But can you blame them? The exigencies of intersectional progressive thought in 2016 pull people in contradictory, opposing directions. Take this interview of Priyanka Chopra from the same website:

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This is obviously wrong, according to the required world view. Colorblindedness is at best naive and at worst-- which here means "actually"-- is a means of perpetuating white privilege and the oppression of people of color (see here). (As an aside I would like to register my continuing objection to the usurpation of the term "brown people", which clearly is supposed to refer to South Asians, by Hispanics; also note the capitalization of "Black".)

Chopra falls into language of "all women", which marginalizes the experiences of Black and brown women, and veers dangerously close to the invisibilizing sloganeering of "All Lives Matter".

Yet the same website not only fails to condemn her, but paints her in a positive light! A right winger can almost sympathise for the poor "woke" progressive who tries to keep up with it all; if not empathise outright, thanks to Donald Trump. Also, Idris Elba should obviously be the next James Bond.

     In a way intersectionality is kind of like chivalry, in that people are expected to live by a complex code of conduct that nobody can keep up with in every aspect. In some ways it's even worse though, in that chivalry at least didn't change day by day.

     Living in a very progressive area, I can easily empathize with people who have to worry constantly about whether they are saying the right thing; I've seen it happen plenty. I just avoid talking to them about politics, even on issues where I agree with them. Political discourse with the "woke" progressive is like walking through a minefield.