Despite having a background in history & it being my favourite of all subjects, I feel the need to write a thing about the tendency of academic types to use it to derail issues at hand right now.
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Similarly, attempts to discuss the current phase of postmodernist thinking and how it is affecting society will nearly always result in people wanting to argue about the origins of these ideas. These are interesting academic explorations but not the point.
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If I am trying to discuss the problem of positionality - stay-in-your-lane, lived experience, my truth, sit down and shut up - I do not wish to hear about the Frankfurt School, Marx, Hegel or, most bizzarely, Plato. Please and thank you.
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That is indeed not relevant to the issue at hand.
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Or, the other way around, some people will say Enlightment ideas about human rights and equality are no good because some of the key thinkers of the Enlightment were racists and antisemites too.
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So you are saying they culturally appropriated it? How dare they
. (No serious don't appropriate FGM
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