A lot of the stuff that Enlightened Centrists call “social justice gone too far” is actually just a lack of intersectionality.
Examples:
“Men are trash” and “kill all men” = radfem dogwhistles that are steeped in transandrophobia and a lack of understanding for the experiences of men of color, trans men, disabled men, and people with genders that don’t neatly sort into “man” or “woman” (esp. multigendered and genderfluid people)
“Haha West Virginia should die because they voted for Trump!” = classism, lack of understanding about the struggles of people of color and working class people (many of whom are also POC) in Appalachia
“Religion is inherently evil” = offensive to ethnoreligions, marginalized religions, and religions or churches popular among POC.
“If you don’t reblog/donate/pay attention to the news 24/7, then you’re a bad person” = ableist, offensive to people with burnout or moral OCD or anyone who does not have the time or resources to be involved in activism 24/7
“[X people] are *always* privileged in every single context whatsoever” = frequently Americentric and ignorant of global realities (ex: Christian groups oppressed in some Muslim-majority countries); often eradicates solidarity and ignores lived experiences (i.e. the “tme/tma” dichotomy, “trans men have male privilege”, etc.)
“Women should never wear makeup/shave their legs/etc.” = radfemmy, ableist to people with sensory issues, transphobic to people who experience gender euphoria from these activities, ignores the ways in which women of color are frequently stripped of their femininity in white supremacist worldviews and thus traditionally feminine activities are often important to them
Pro-Palestine activists who blur the line into antisemitism = clear-cut case of lack of intersectionality and nuance, NOT evidence that opposing the modern nation-state of Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians is inherently antisemitic.
“If you don’t use the exact right words then you’re a bigot even if you didn’t know any better” = ableist, Americentric, ignorant of people who may not have access to these words or concepts
“America is bad so China/Iran/the Soviet Union etc. must be good.” = infantilizes non-Americans by treating them as inherently better or incapable of oppression and bigotry, ignores serious realities like the genocide of the Uyghurs or the Holodomor
“Voting for Democrats is morally inexusable because they support Israel” = ignorant of how Republicans make life actively worse for many American marginalized groups in ways that even the Democrats do not do.










