https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/sep/16/chelsea-manning-story-highlights-key-issues-of-our-time
To a guy with a hammer, everything looks like a nail. So in a week in which
nature’s furies combined with my realisations about the fragmentation of
online news, Manning seemed to provide a kind of antidote:
intersectionality. “My cause is not the same as Daca [Deferred Action for
Childhood Arrivals, the programme that gives temporary protection to
undocumented migrants who arrived in the US as children] or Black Lives
Matter or women’s rights, or anything else, but I support those causes
because it’s all connected.”
In her eyes, those fighting these and others battles across modern society
must recognise that their common enemy is fragmentation, not just of
information and news but of groups and causes which, divided one from
another, cannot advance.
