Given their ideological nature, neo-liberal projects are prone to unravelling – particularly when they are additionally hobbled by the lobbyist’s spin someone like Edward Lord brings to them. Lord’s is a neo-liberal ideology that doesn’t just tolerate certain manifestations of intersectionality, it celebrates intersectionality that has been economically disciplined and commodified to generate money at the expense of any real sense of community. Thus Lord is only a ‘champion’ of diversity and inclusion in as far as these things further neo-liberal ideology. Lord has demonstrated in practice they will lobby for and reputation wash oil rich authoritarian regimes – such as the government of Azerbaijan – in preference to standing up for human rights and LGBT+ communities.

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