I'd disagree. A new form of authoritarianism born of postmodernism is at the root of it.Not much emancipation going on. Limiting
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Replying to @HPluckrose
That is my point. Postmodernism was never about emancipation in my opinion
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Replying to @icarianne2
Have I suggested it is? I thought I'd been clear it was authoritarian & restrictive and anti-liberal.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
you do say it is revolutionary and leftist.... Many don't see it as leftist because it is uninterested in equality and progress.
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Replying to @icarianne2
And I have also argued this! They do tho! They come from this tradition but apply it horribly.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
a narrative that presents the Enlightenment as oppressive as you know
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Replying to @icarianne2
So we go all Foucauldian and change the history so it doesn't seem that way?
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Replying to @HPluckrose
we do what Kenan does: we say that it was born in the West, without equating it strictly with the West. Both statements are true
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Replying to @icarianne2 @HPluckrose
you agreee that ID politics equates race with culture or a set of ideas, right?
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Replying to @icarianne2 @HPluckrose
ideas are not rooted in space. they travel. they may be born in one place and apply in another.
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Thanks so much. I didn't know this. Haven't argued it. Never supported Eastern liberals. My eyes have been opened.
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