Interfactionality and Righteousness

Interfactionality as a system feeds on the compulsion to unambiguous righteousness, is driven by it, and perhaps most importantly, conceals itself in the blind spots generated by it.

Interfactionality and the Jew

Where racism, sexism, homophobia, and so forth intersect, interfactionality fulfills a secondary, exacerbating function. For antisemitism, on the other hand, interfactionality is the primary operating principle.

Stop Trying to Make “Judeo-Christian” Happen

The entire logic of Christian antisemitism manifests in the term “Judeo-Christian.” This term claims a single history and tradition for both groups—one of which by the way has murdered millions of the other and justified those murders by projecting their oppressiveness onto them—and in so doing erases the last twenty centuries of Jewish history such that it deviates from Christianity, and makes the centuries before that significant only as a prelude to the birth of Christ.

Interfactionality and the White Woman

It’s entirely possible to critique white womanhood as an element of white supremacy without drawing on or reinforcing sexist power structures. You just have to make sure your story doesn’t draw its rhetorical power from isolating white women as the primary problem.

Conspiracy Theorists Can’t Handle the Truth

Conspiracy theorists like to imagine they’re seeing below the veil, willing to face down truths that others are unwilling to acknowledge. But what they’re actually doing, usually, is taking a complex and troubling social problem that is both extremely difficult or impossible to solve and in which they, as part of the social structure, are also in some way complicit; and then subscribing to a narrative that externalizes that problem and also makes it solvable.

Interfactionality and Mutual Oppression

Nobody, no matter how intense or intersectional their own oppression, is immune from being a vector of somebody else’s.

Interfactionality and the Hierarchy of Oppressions

In a socially stratified system, groups are oppressed at different levels of intensity but according to the same set of principles. In a matrix of domination, people are oppressed according to different principles, which makes it a more insidious tool of interfactional oppression.

Intersectionality and Interfactionality

I define interfactionality as conflict between subordinated groups within a system of interlocking oppressions, sown by that system as a way to subvert potential resistance to it into maintenance of it.

Trading Lives

War justifies itself by short-circuiting our ethical reasoning.

All Horror is Social Horror

What sets Get Out and its direct precedents apart from the rest of the genre is not their grounding in social politics, but the fact that those politics are progressive instead of reactionary.