There is going to come a point where you might hear “real intersectionality hasn’t been tried yet/real DEI hasn’t been tried yet/real equity hasn’t been tried yet”, the way one has heard since 1991 “that wasn’t REAL communism”. The real truth is the DNA of all of these progressive vehicle were already poisoned at conception. This especially applies to intersectionality, as the one area where it can support its all encompassing claims is the one area where it excels: as the the lodestone of contemporary Judeomisia. It did not just “become that way”: tt was forged that way by its own intellectual founders.
Derrick Bell, the undisputed father of Critical Race Theory (the womb from which Crenshaw’s intersectionality emerged), never hid his view of Jews. In his seminal 1992 book Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism (the same volume that contains the notorious “Space Traders” allegory), Bell explicitly wrote that Black opposition to antisemitism was often less about genuine solidarity than a bid for “status enhancement” in white eyes. Jewish support for civil rights, in turn, was explained away as self-interested “interest convergence”—Jews helping Blacks only to keep themselves off the bottom rung. In the allegory itself, American Jews form an “Anne Frank Committee” to smuggle Blacks out before the extraterrestrial trade; the FBI promptly outs them, they go into hiding, and the narrative frames their solidarity as fear-driven, not principled. Classic trope: Jews act only when they fear they’ll be next.
Bell also praised Louis Farrakhan’s “telling it like it is” on racism while dismissing demands that Blacks denounce him as akin to apartheid “passbooks.” He referred to “Jewish neoconservative racists who are undermining blacks in every way they can.” This is not a stray remark. It is the logical outgrowth of a theory that reduces every alliance to power calculus and every successful minority to a prop of “whiteness.”
Kimberlé Crenshaw’s 1989 paper “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex” (University of Chicago Legal Forum) is the document you cite. Read it. It is silent on Jews, Zionism, or antisemitism—because the theory was never designed to accommodate them. It was built for a binary oppressor/oppressed matrix in which race and gender “intersect” to produce unique subordination. Jews, who refuse to stay subordinated, who built a thriving state after the Holocaust, who are statistically over-represented in every marker of success, do not fit. Therefore the framework racializes them as “white” and, post-1967, as the ultimate settler-colonial oppressor. Israel becomes the intersectional sin par excellence: a “white” ethno-state on “stolen” land. Zionism is not a legitimate national liberation movement; it is the racism that dare not speak its name. That is why every major intersectional formation—BLM’s 2016 platform, the Women’s March leadership, campus encampments—treats anti-Zionism as the price of admission. It is not a bug. It is the feature hard-coded from Bell forward.
You teach this as neutral sociology. You are not “just teaching the theory.” You are transmitting a closed ideological system whose founding texts already treated Jewish success as suspect, Jewish alliances as tactical, and Jewish self-determination (Zionism) as the inevitable expression of “whiteness.” The student who internalizes it does not need later activists to tell her that “from the river to the sea” is progressive praxis; the DNA already programs the conclusion.
You can wrap it in flowery academese about “multiple identities” and “DeGraffenreid.” The street, the protest, the classroom, and the faculty lounge have already rendered the verdict: under intersectionality, the only good Jew is the one who renounces Israel, renounces peoplehood, and accepts permanent junior-partner status in the hierarchy of the oppressed. Every other Jew is an oppressor by definition.
That is why the only intellectually honest way to teach intersectionality today is the way we teach Nazism, Communism, and the Confederacy: as a lost cause whose premises were rotten from the root and whose fruits have been poison. “Real intersectionality hasn’t been tried” is just the latest Orwellian rewrite for a theory that could never have turned out otherwise. Anything less is complicity dressed up as scholarship. And history’s perennial canary in the coal mine — the Jews — has already paid the price for that self-deception.
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