the US. The French Minister of Education Jean-Michel Blanquer declared that intersectionality is in conflict with the French republican values. He accused advocates of intersectionality of playing into the hands of Islamism. In turn, Libération accused Blanquer of not having a good understanding of the concept of intersectionality and of attacking the concept for political reasons. The Murder of Samuel Paty supposedly provided a pretext for such attacks on the concept of intersectionality. Conservatism Conservatives believe that intersectionality allows people of color and women of color to victimize themselves and let themselves submit to special treatment. Instead, they classify the concept of intersectionality as a sort of hierarchy of oppression to see which person will receive more unfair treatment than another person would. American conservative commentator Ben Shapiro stated in 2019 that "I would define intersectionality as, at least the way that I’ve seen it manifest on college campuses, and in a lot of the political left, as a hierarchy of victimhood in which people are considered members of a victim class by virtue of membership in a particular group, and at the intersection of various groups lies the ascent on the hierarchy". See also Black feminism Disability justice Identity politics Humanism Identitarianism Kyriarchy Misogynoir Oppression Olympics Privilege (social inequality) Transnational feminism Womanism Implicit stereotype Polylogism Class discrimination Notes References Further reading External links Intersectional feminism Feminist theory 2010s controversies 2020s controversies