"progressivism"/intersectionality is marxist class theory poorly and crudely misapplied to race, gender, sexuality, etc.
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Replying to @Banned_Ali
No. That's the misconception that I hope to write about soon. This misses most of the picture.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Well drop me a link as soon as you're done. As someone who does have marxey leanings, I'm curious what your take is.
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Replying to @Banned_Ali
Have a look at that link I sent. I intend to draw on these ideas & compare them with PoMo ones & show the differences.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @Banned_Ali
Coz if we understand PoMo as cultural Marxism, we will miss what I think is the biggest problem - the denial that objective knowledge exists
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Replying to @HPluckrose
I agree on that point, but would argue that absence of objective truth isn't as central a tenet as one would expect with PoMo's.
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Replying to @Banned_Ali @HPluckrose
.. Richard Dawkins has a lovely quote on this, will try to find.
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Replying to @Banned_Ali @HPluckrose
.. I can't find it for the life of me, but it was something to the effect that postmodernist academics didn't actually apply their PoMo...
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Replying to @Banned_Ali @HPluckrose
.. beliefs/ideals to their own daily reality. And this is self-evident when dealing with "cultural marxists" clearly they reject....
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Replying to @Banned_Ali @HPluckrose
.. subjective truth on some level because one cannot argue for any position if one truly believes that all positions are valid opinions.
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Oh yes, the self-referentiality problem.
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