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
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We can see the identity politics and the oppression olympics & the divisiveness of theories of privilege easily enough.
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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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