This is particularly important to me because I think that this is the pernicious thing that's sneaking in coz ppl don't really understand it
But the undermining of objective reality? The idea that truth is subjective? That knowledge is constructed? That sneaks by.
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I don't want to deny the contribution of Marxist ideas of oppressed & oppressor classes and false consciousness.
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But I worry that people seize on this & expand it to other identity groups coz this is a clear explanation & miss the rest of the story.
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And the rest of the story is an attack on all the values of modernity and the Enlightenment - science, reason, empiricism etc.
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And I shall now get off my soapbox.
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