It's important to take responsibility for the things we say but we do also need to take responsibility for our perceptions of what others do
That the idea we create our own meaning of words & they're just as valid as the author's has become twisted & used to serve political ends
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There's a point here though where it becomes "how can anyone know what anyone else means?"
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Well, yes. Theorists like Derrida would argue that they can't.
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Derrida isn't is as crude as that, though some of his Anglophone interpreters often can be. Rather he talks about meaning being 'deferred'.
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Forever. Every text "engenders infinitely new contexts in an absolutely nonsaturable fashion."
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Yes, so meaning is never 'exhausted'. But which doesn't imply no meaning at all.
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This isn't the practice here, either. Ppl are claiming their interpretation more valid than the speakers & proves their ideological point.
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So this is where people are just straight up intellectually lazy, and prefer one's intent to match their own. I see you deal with this...
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They're offence-seekers who see everything through a system of power structures & privileges & look for evidence of racism/sexism.
End of conversation
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