The idea that 'discourse' - expression of a certain kind of view - creates knowledge & reality comes from Foucault & other postmodernists.
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It's not true tho. Stats show us the vast majority of ppl support gender equality, almost as many racial equality & a majority LGBT equality
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The dominant discourses (UK more than US coz religion) are liberal in the sense of supporting universal human rights & equal opportunities.
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This doesn't mean we shld stop making arguments for this &presenting them alongside counterarguments. Ppl keep getting born not knowing them
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I think too many people of this generation were born into it without knowing the logical reasoning behind the enlightenment.
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