[Spivak]

Choosing to not recognize that political labels, like all subcultures (punk, goth, cottagecore, vsco girl, suburban dad, tech bro, raver, lgbt), have “aesthetics” that affect huge cross-sections of people’s lives from fashion, interests, to purchases doesn’t make them go away, it only lowers your own predictive power.

[dTal]

It helps make them go away, over time, in the same way that refusing to use group statistics to make judgements about individuals (at a cost to your own predictive power) helps redress the inequalities that led to differences in groups in the first place.

[Spivak]

Ohh don't get me wrong, I strongly agree with this. But I think it's okay to take the blinders off to answer "why do these seemingly unrelated groups of people not buy hybrid cars?"

I really think the distinction is whether you look at these labels in good faith, care, attention to their history, and always through the lens of intersectionalism.