Is intersectionality the new caste system?

Intersectionality breaks down social divisions and hierarchies

Question: Is intersectionality the new caste system?
Position1 of 3›: No, intersectionality is not the new caste system
Argument‹2 of 3›: Intersectionality breaks down social divisions and hierarchies

Intersectionality is not the new caste system because it breaks down social divisions and hierarchies. Its aim is to get rid of gender-, class-, and class-based power dynamics altogether by changing the structures that underlie contemporary politics and law.

The argument

Mainstream feminism ignores the overlapping realities of class and race and culture. Intersectionality breaks down social divisions by acknowledging and addressing these other dimensions of oppression. Intersectionality was not designed to replicate existing power dynamics and cultural structures just to give minority groups power over white people. Its aim is to get rid of such existing power dynamics altogether by changing the structures that underlie contemporary politics and law.

Premises

[P1]Mainstream feminism overlooks how class, race, and culture overlap with gender to produce oppression. [P2] Intersectionality acknowledges these overlapping dimensions in order to dismantle the underlying structures of power, not to invert them. [C] Therefore, intersectionality breaks down social hierarchies rather than functioning as a new caste system.

Counter-arguments

Intersectionality creates an "us" versus "them" narrative around issues about race, gender, and class. Instead of breaking down social divisions and hierarchies, it creates new ones instead.

Rejecting the premises

[Rejecting P2] The counter disputes the effect rather than the intention, holding that framing issues of race, gender and class in these terms produces an 'us' versus 'them' account of society. [Rejecting C] On that reading the analysis does not dismantle the underlying structures of power but generates fresh divisions and hierarchies in place of the ones it set out to remove.