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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: What is "intersectionality"?
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Imagine a factory in the 1960's.  They say they don't discriminate against women, because they have front office staff who are women.

They say they don't discriminate against black people, because they hire some black people in the factory floor.

The problem is that they only hire men for the factory floor, and they only hire whites in the office.  If your identity is both black and a woman (the intersection of the two), then the company will never hire you.

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The discrimination you, as a unique individual, face is the result of the intersection of all the aspects of your identity.  This was was not widely thought about in historical social justice movements, because feminism was concerned about women and racial justice organizations were concerned about racial minorities, etc.