In the academic and social justice left, 'stay in your lane', 'speech is violence', knowledge is culturally constructed, gender differences are culturally constructed etc *do* come from postmodernism but I agree most people don't know that. It's just normal now. https://twitter.com/cultofdusty/status/970421801472884736 …
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Replying to @cultofdusty
Then you live in a tiny hyper-rational bubble. The rest of us are dealing with claims that different demographics have their own truth - see Kristie Dotson, intersectionality, critical race theory, postcolonialism, queer theory, decolonise science etc.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @cultofdusty
You must know anti-vax attitudes coming from the left, denial of gendered brain differences on the left, sometimes even denial of evolution (see everyday feminism) and protests against Cancer Research saying obesity is a risk for cancer? That sort of thing? Never seen any of it?
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Replying to @cultofdusty @HPluckrose
I don't think she's ever claimed that they represent the majority. We can't call out bad ideas until they're held by the majority? What sense does that make?
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No, Dusty and I seem to be talking past each other a bit. I think we probably disagree on a lot less than he thinks.
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