Intersectionality for Afghans

Published in El Pais
(Spain) on 3 September 2021
by Najat El Hachmi (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Stephen Paul Routledge. Edited by Gillian Palmer.
The only good thing about all this is that T-shirt feminism, that which says “we should all be feminists,” will finally be unmasked. But don't ask me how.

I wonder what good it does Afghans that Kamala Harris is one of the most powerful women in the world, and that the American woman has reached this milestone through an exercise of power identical to that carried out by rich white men. Joe Biden admitted the discursive hypocrisy spread during the last two decades and has remained as broad-minded: Our objective, he said, was never to establish democracy in Afghanistan, but to put an end to terrorism. In other words, the military intervention had no other purpose than to protect the only human beings worthy of being considered as such; those who won the lottery of being born in the right nation. The rest of the planet's inhabitants deserve neither the freedom, equality nor justice of the free world. The axis of evil, and the supposed export of fundamental rights, is over. What difference does it make from now on if Afghan women are wiped off the map, condemned to renounce all semblance of dignity, or are buried alive for having been born into the wrong sex?

This is how the great conquest of power by the first Black woman of Asian origin becomes a frivolous slogan that has nothing to do with the profound transformation of the world proposed by feminism and anti-racism. Harris recently subscribed to Biden's words, affirming that the withdrawal of America’s troops was the right thing to do. A hasty withdrawal that abandons to their fate all those who, in one way or another, were part of the attempt to democratize the country, as well as — and especially — the many others who will pay with their lives for the decisions of international geopolitics taken aseptically in comfortable offices.

What do we notice here about the sex and origin of the vice president? The intersectionality so often claimed by feminism vanishes when non-white women are not American or Western. And in order to justify this shameful cynicism, the hackneyed lies about the situation of the victims of theocracies have re-emerged and spread with propagandistic virulence: that slavery and lack of freedom are simply part of their culture and DNA.

The only good thing about all this is that T-shirt feminism, that which says “we should all be feminists,” will finally be unmasked. But don't ask me how.


Interseccionalidad para afganas

Lo único bueno de todo esto es que se desenmascara al fin el feminismo de camiseta, el de “todos deberíamos ser feministas” pero no me preguntes cómo


Me pregunto de qué les sirve a las afganas que Kamala Harris sea una de las mujeres más poderosas del mundo, dónde queda el hito alcanzado por la norteamericana si su ejercicio del poder es idéntico al que llevan a cabo hombres blancos ricos. Admitió Biden la hipocresía discursiva difundida durante las últimas dos décadas y se quedó tan ancho: nuestro objetivo, dijo, nunca fue establecer la democracia en Afganistán, nuestro objetivo era acabar con el terrorismo. Es decir: la intervención militar no tenía otro propósito que el de proteger a los únicos seres humanos dignos de ser considerados como tales, aquellos a quienes les tocó la lotería de nacer en la nación correcta. El resto de habitantes del planeta no merecen ni la libertad ni la igualdad ni la justicia propias del mundo libre. Se acabó el eje del mal y la supuesta exportación de derechos fundamentales. ¿Qué más da que a partir de ahora las afganas sean borradas del mapa, condenadas a renunciar a todo atisbo de dignidad, que sean enterradas en vida por haber nacido con el sexo equivocado?

Así es como la gran conquista del poder por parte de la primera mujer negra, de origen asiático se convierte en un frívolo eslogan que nada tiene que ver con la transformación profunda del mundo que proponen tanto el feminismo como el antirracismo. Kamala Harris suscribió al cabo de poco las palabras de Biden afirmando que la retirada de sus tropas era lo correcto. Una retirada precipitada que abandona a su suerte a todos los que, de un modo u otro, formaron parte del intento de democratización del país y otros muchos, sobre todo muchas, que pagaran con la vida las decisiones de la geopolítica internacional tomadas asépticamente en confortables despachos. ¿En qué notamos aquí el sexo y el origen de la vicepresidenta? La interseccionalidad tantas veces reclamada al feminismo se desvanece cuando las mujeres no blancas no son estadounidenses u occidentales. Y para justificar este vergonzoso cinismo han vuelto a emerger y a difundirse con virulencia propagandística las manidas mentiras sobre la situación que viven las víctimas de las teocracias: que está en su cultura y su ADN la esclavitud y la falta de libertad.

Lo único bueno de todo esto es que se desenmascara al fin el feminismo de camiseta, el de “todos deberíamos ser feministas” pero no me preguntes cómo.
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