If you're ever tempted to think people overstate the power of postmodern ideas of knowledge, truth, power & identity because so few people have studied these, think of how much influence Christianity & Islam etc can have in a culture where only a tiny % of ppl study theology.
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It's quite possible to recognise that some truth claims & moral claims have been excluded from the conversation & remedy this but still evaluate both according to evidence, reason & consistently liberal humanist ethics.
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The problem is not that some ideas get marginalised but that they get marginalised for the wrong reason. Rejecting an idea because of the gender/race/sexuality of the person/people expressing it is a problem. Rejecting an idea because it has no evidence and/or is unethical is not
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