Claims to have society's best interests at heart but really aim is to shut down any approach to social justice but their own & vilify other.
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Because they should know better. If you have much knowledge of a topic & a brain capable of sophisticated analysis, do it properly.
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I kinda know what you are talking about but can you give a specific example?
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Difficult on Twitter because of the sophisticated nature of the subtle shifting of one meaning to something else. I'll have a think.
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Had a lot of these with PoMos recently where they look like they're criticising my essay but in fact, they're changing angles.
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I'm saying that certain ideas which exist now can be traced back to certain ideas in academia as exemplified by certain theorists.
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They will take the theorists I'm talking abt & show them saying something else & claim this disproves that PoMo underlies the problems now.
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Bit like 'Islam is not responsible for death penalties for apostates from Islam coz Quran says there can be no compulsion in religion.'
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But 'Derrida's ideas abt interpretation of language being more important than intended meaning can't underlie microaggressions because...
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'...Derrida said in a later interview that he hated identity politics.' But not stated so clearly & still seeming to address my arguments.
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