The vast majority of postmodernists have no idea what post modernism is, or that they are believers in it.
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Replying to @BretWeinstein
Ergo, blaming "the left's" pathology on post-modernism is a straw man dead end. What % of folks engaged in deplatforming are versed in Derrida and Foucault? Mouffe & Leclau? How many read more Marx than the CM?Very few. Bad argument
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Replying to @A_Mart_in_DE @BretWeinstein
That was the point. People can now be culturally and epistemologically relativist, believe that knowledge is a construct of discourses of power & that people are positioned by identity within those discourses rather than individuals w/out the faintest idea where this came from.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @BretWeinstein
Further, what u are describing is Gramscian hegemony--the internalization of ideology without being able to understand its source. Do we really thing that the "left" is now on the level of "liberal economic orthodoxy" in terms of hegemonic influence? Is this not overstating a bit
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Replying to @A_Mart_in_DE @BretWeinstein
Huh? Who is stating anything like this? I'm only stating what I am stating.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @BretWeinstein
It follows logically from the first post: if postmodernists don't know they are postmodernists, as asserted in the first tweet and defended by you, then they have been so absorbed into this belief system that they dont know where it started or how they got there.
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Replying to @A_Mart_in_DE @BretWeinstein
This is commonly accepted. Few westerners realise how much influence Augustine had on western ways of thinking. They can uphold those ideas even if they have never heard of him. This was being recognised long before Gramsci. Do you know where all your ideas came from?
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I'm questioning the second bit. We were talking about postmodernists, not the left. We are currently fighting for the soul of the left. This couldn't happen if we'd all been taken over by postmodern ideas. They do have a lot of institutional power tho.
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