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Cultural Capital and the Teenage Girl

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A comment I recently received on a YouTube video: The commentator: I hope your parents know you're reading anti-white propaganda. Intersectionality is a secular religious cult. My response: We'll have to agree to disagree :) The commentator's response: Go ask your Mummy and Daddy. A focus on the black experience does not equate to anti-white propaganda. White people can be individually discriminated against. White people as a group, however, have never been attacked solely for being white. You can't be racist to a white person. Secular = Denoting attitudes, activities, or other things that have no religious or spiritual basis. Thus, this guy is really good at a) oxymoron b) being a moron c) arguing against his own point. Cult = a relatively small group of people having religious beliefs or practices regarded by others as strange or sinister. Is it sinister of me to contemplate the complexity and nuance of each person? Is it strange to think that you ar