Really, walter, you find *nothing* - not even one phrase - of substance there?
That's OK, you don't have to and you're free to hold your opinions, as I am mine. As with anything I post here, I offer it because I think it thought-provoking, worth a share, not because I believe it a Tablet handed down from On High. I was moved to hear that Fisher had been so hounded for his views he committed suicide. His writing picqued my interest and I thought it worth sharing in this space. If posters would rather I didn't share writing I find (which may be off-piste, provocative or whatever) let me know and I will stop.
walter: "Also, who is obsessed? People fighting for racial or gender justice do not try to kick class issues out of the discourse, it's very much the other way around"
I try to refer always to media and media analysis. So in this case, the "who" refers to self-described liberal-left monopoly media and the revealing way they report (and don't report) on issues of race, gender, disability, class, etcetera.
Naturally, the people on the ground fighting for racial and gender justice issues are sincere and deserve our respect. It's not to them that I refer.
I refer to media and the spotlight it shines (and does not shine) on certain aspects of certain issues. The contention is that self-described liberal-left media pays *selective* attention to racial and gender issues. But, at least, it pays some attention to these issues of individual gender identification and so on. For example, The Guardian can't be faulted for devoting a decent amount of space to well-written articles on "women's issues', "feminist issues", "LGBTQ" issues, "race issues" etc. What monopoly media kicks out of the discourse are well-written articles joining all the dots between these issues and exploring how poverty and inequality play their part in creating, enabling or perpetuating many of these troubling issues.
I quoted Fisher on "Intersectionality theory has been taken over by liberal university graduates whose only real political commitment is to their own advancement" . The liberal university graduate journalists that staff The Guardian and other self-described liberal-left media are well versed (via their PPE courses) on identity issues and sensitivities and offer fairly impressive reporting on these subjects, at times. What you *won't* find them doing (because it's against their own interests and advancement) is joining the dots between poverty, inequality and identity, prejudices and individual unhappinesses.
Race and gender are very important and I'm not prepared for yourself and WV to make out - yet again - that I don't think so. Fisher's quote is spot-on as to how one gets treated around this issue by some at Lifeboat News, if one dares to offers a different opinion for perusal: "the sheer mention of class is now automatically treated as if that means one is trying to downgrade the importance of race and gender. In fact, the exact opposite is the case..."