The idea that whether or not we need to take responsibility for what we do and what we feel depends on whether we are considered to be privileged or marginalised rather than whether it is ethical/reasonable to do is an appalling one.
I am saying that we *shouldn't* keep saying 'postmodernism' when we mean a certain set of ideas based on an epistemology of situated knowledge. Because postmodernism is much broader than this. I have just argued this in my response to the defence of postmodernism.
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But it's not just based on a standpoint epistemology. Their account of language is based on a rationalist epistemology, and Foucault was an empiricist. Epistemology isn't that interesting unless you're a philosopher of knowledge.
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No. that is why we should not say 'postmodernism' when we are just talking about an epistemology based on standpoint theory. That is the point of my tweet. It's the one that says we *shouldn't* use 'postmodernism' when we're just referring to certain epistemological ideas
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Go back to the first tweet I responded to. Postmodernism isn't an epistemology. You ask a postmodernist, "How do you know that" and they say because I'm a postmodernist, then that's a statement of identity not an epistemology, and that should be pointed out.
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That is also what my tweet is saying. That postmodernism is not an epistemology and therefore should not be used to describe one. Therefore there is no need to explain to me that postmodernism isn't an epistemology.
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