Intersectionality is valid but can be weaponized

The core of intersectionality is valid — identities interact in statistical 'interaction effects' such that a black woman is treated in specific ways not reducible to being black plus being a woman — and Crenshaw presents it without demonizing straight white males, but on campus students learn to see everything as dimensions of oppression (white oppresses black, male oppresses female, straight oppresses others), which turns the framework into a tool for tribal judgment.