Yes, a big difference between radical & PoMo approaches is that radicals often work logically & consistently from a (flawed?) premise 1/2 https://twitter.com/arovmorin/status/884476195760472064 …
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But most aren't so deeply ideologically committed & you can motivate them to hear you by recognising the moralistic underpinnings.
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eg Culturally relative ethics are rooted in postcolonial guilt & concern for prejudice against marginalised groups. Can find common ground.
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Is that a popular behavior or a formal educational standard? It makes me rather concerned.
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Its the pure academic form of postmodernism. It gets diluted a bit as its filtered through critical theory around gender/race/sexuality etc
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And then more as it comes out of academia and into SocJus movements. Other moralistic aims come into play.
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But the shift towards thinking different opinions mean different truths is more widespread & not necessarily underlain by ideology.
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So the problem with this can be talked through with people. Often ppl who say this will concede that it doesn't really work.
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eg, people who say 'I respect everybody's personal truth' will concede that they mean they respect ppl's right to different opinions and 1/2
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...that they do see that they can't all be true and that there are better and worse ways of finding out what is true.
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Thank you for the through response
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