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Can we all agree that the concept of intersectionality is basically tied to a lack of understanding about conditional probability? Like Florence Price to my mind is a completely uninteresting composer but the radio station here feels a need to play her music often because she's a black woman. There's nothing wrong with a black woman composer, but the probability that any decent composer is both black and a woman is slim. There are certainly decent black composers, (Samuel Coleridge Taylor, De Chavlier Saint Georges). There are many excellent female composers, (Lili Boulanger, Clara Schumann) but I have not seen a substantial composer that is both. This is a probability issue, not a political one.