Like Orthodox Marxism, the various forms and flavors of Cultural Marxism, called Intersectionality or “anti-racism” by its proponents, is based on a false premise. The premise is not an economic conjecture but a logical fallacy that extrapolates data from aggregates to individuals and from individuals to aggregates. These are known as the fallacies of division and composition. Just because something is true of a data set does not make it so of every data point in that set or any data point in particular; conversely, just because something is true of particular data points within the set does not make it true of the whole data set; this is demonstrable in the outlier effect. For instance, if Elon Musk walked into a wine bar with 100 people the average patron would be a billionaire even if no one in the bar was a billionaire except Musk; however, the median net worth would tell us a much different story. The same is true in reverse, even without Musk as an Outlier. If the wine bar happened to be located in a poor county it would not follow that any patron in particular is poor or low income, they may in fact be some of the richest people in the county. The same holds true when the supposed racial wealth gap or disparities in drug possession arrests or incarceration rates are put forth as evidence of white privilege. The higher average or median wealth of a specific demographic is not applicable to every particular individual within that demographic, especially if they live in a rural area with lower property values or are renters. Conversely, an individual within certain demographics are not poorer or more likely to be arrested for drug possession just because their demographic is on average poorer and more likely to be arrested for drugs. They may in fact own a nice home, not be a drug user, and not have a rap sheet in which case the presumed disadvantage or privilege is immaterial. In general, statistics and probabilities can tell us only about the characteristics of groups and nothing of individuals. Within group variance is what makes such assumptions fallacious from the outset; this is why ANOVA tests exist, but even so they assume a normal distribution of the variable in question throughout the population (which wealth, income and arrests are not) and we can learn nothing about individual life experiences that make generalized assumptions within the myopic framework of ideologically motivated social science accurate.
The Privilege Fallacy
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