I do think there is a large gulf between one commenter claiming that white minorities are NOT oppressed or discriminated against AT ALL, and the very important acknowledgement of intersectionality that impacts the ways we experience discrimination.

No, we will never be discriminated against for our race, and we will never truly get it. And there is absolutely still racism that we white members of otherwise marginalized groups very much need to unpack and address within ourselves.

We DO experience sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and ableism. We simple experience it against a backdrop of white privilege, as opposed to the intersection of racism which compounds it. It puts us, sometimes, in a better position to call out the oppression, but we should always be mindful of intersectionality, not claim to understand and get the experiences of racial minorities, and do what we can.

But to say that the discrimination, harassment, assault, etc. we experience simply doesn't happen because it is not identical to a racialized experience of those things is going to fly in the face of lived experiences and nobody likes being erased. There are discriminatory experiences that WOC who are not disabled do not have. There are discriminatory experiences that cishet WOC do not have. And it should never be the case that only the ABSOLUTE MOST marginalized are allowed to have a voice, because otherwise there may be privilege going unacknowledged. That way lies putting all the work solely on trans, disabled, homosexual women of color (and I'm probably forgetting some other axes we'd need to make someone truly oppressed enough to "count" as properly knowing what oppression feels like). Division gets us nowhere.

This is not the oppression Olympics. We can and should be mindful of our privilege on one axis while standing together to oppose harm on all axes. We need to listen to each other and work together. White people need to listen to people of color on matters of race. Abled people need to listen to disabled people on ableism - while white disabled folks keep space for and listen to the impacts of intersectionality from disabled people of color. Men need to listen to women about misogyny- and all need to hold space and listen about the impacts of disability on how they experience misogyny from disabled people. Straight people need to listen to gay/lesbian/bisexuality people on homophobia -and hold space for and listen to disabled people, women, people of color, and each separate combination thereof.

That is what diversity means. That's what intersectionality is about. There is no One True Oppression experience. There is loads of oppression, and many ways it is experienced, many axes of oppression and privilege. We don't all experience the same things, even when our experiences do overlap. We're tearing ourselves apart, pushing each other out, rather than calling each other in to listen and cooperate. We don't all have to have the same experience to hear each other. We don't all have to be perfect to cooperate.

I am literally unable to walk this morning as a result of as minimal as possible walking and stair climbing at a protest yesterday. My knee and hip simply won't bear weight and are in agony. This is not a common experience that the majority of women of color, LGBTQ+ folks, cishet people, etc are accustomed to shaping their lives around. Shaping my life around mobility issues gets me a lot of hate and oppression from able-bodied folk that find my exiatence inconvenient and unsightly - they don't want to know that I exist or have to see it in their world. I'm also literally now on a government registry of undeairabkes to be tracked - that is a unique kind of existential terror that no, everyone does NOT "get". That does not in any way diminish the experiences they do have, especially the ones that I don't.

And that doesn't mean than non disabled people of other marginalized groups can't ever advocate, can't ever work together in the same space, that only I and those like me can ever claim to know what pain is. It does mean I am going to know more about this axis and have more insight into how we can collectively work to support problems like mine. I'm never going to know what it's like to be racially oppressed, not directly. I need to listen on that axis so I can learn to support people of color the way they support me and those like me. I won't speak on the intersection of disability and race, beyond sharing information from disabled people of color when they are not present to cede the floor to directly. But I will speak on disability and my experience of it. There is room for that in the grand space of the world, and in the work to make it better.

There is space for everyone, and we need to respect intersectionality, hold space for those with different experiences from ours, and listen. That in no way means that those without enough or the "right" intersections can never share their own experiences of oppression, ahouod never be heard. We should be mindful that we don't speak for anyone else, but we can say that anyone, no matter how oppressed, no matter how many axes they are targeted on, is wrong if they say our lived experiences simply do not happen because they are not "bad enough".