A similar thing happened within queer theory and postcolonial theory - categories and histories accepted as true remained broken down & argued to have been constructed in the first place by discourses of power (epitome of PoMo) but made more addressable. Truth claims were back.
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It's not just annoying ppl in the humanities who'd like to be more rigorous & evidence-based. It evolved & entered leftist social conscience trading on the good name of the civil rights movement, feminism & Gay Pride & catastrophically undermined it.
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So yes, rightists will name it & attack it as all that is wrong with the left but they often misidentify it as an expansion of Marxism (rather than just as a replacement for Marxism) to conflate the two enemies - the identitarian left & economic left.
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Sometimes this is an ideologically-motivated conflation & to some extent it's excusable because anti-capitalism noises are still being made by the PoMo left but they're not very convincing & the surge of working class voters to the right demonstrates this. Their party forgot them
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But leftists like me attack postmodernism too because we'd actually like to fix the problem and be electable by reasonable people again, please.
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Bloody hell. I only got up to go to the loo but made the mistake of checking Twitter and found
@GodDoesnt had DMd me this thread with 'This might interest you.' Two hours and 50 tweets later... Damn you, Lindsay....Show this thread
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I’d add that the right is ADOPTING many PoMo / Identity politics concepts. The whole “fake news” thing here in the US. Trump’s refusal to recognize fact based anything. It’s PoMo by definition.
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