Penetrating essay by @safeortrue (typical of @QuilletteM) takes critical theory seriously, unpacks it, and shows it to be dangerous nonsense, inconsistent with a humane & objective search for truth. Overused slogans & epithets becoming caricatures too.http://quillette.com/2017/12/09/white-women-tears-wilfrid-laurier-critical-theory/ …
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Replying to @clairlemon @brynnbeard and
Reducing everything in Marxism, or for that matter the whole of Continental Philosophy, as somehow leading straight to the Khmer Rouge is intellectually lazy, and it's sadly the argumentative tactic the article employs.
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Replying to @iamcuriousblue @clairlemon and
A political philosophy that replaces rationality with morality is one of the most dangerous things that can happen to a society. From the perspective of a particular morality that is incredibly hard to see.
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Replying to @Plinz @clairlemon and
And this is a prime example of the kind of nonsense I'm talking about. Marxism is a distinctly anti-moralist philosophy. I think ideas should be critiqued from a place of understanding of those ideas. Which is not where I see conservatives coming from wrt Marxism.
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Replying to @iamcuriousblue @Plinz and
Marxist theory declares that incorrect ideas are created by class membership alone, and are girded by wealth inequality. Marxism is anti-moralist because it posits all ideas generated in a class system are, essentially, "immoral" except Marxist ideas.
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Any description of a system can only be true or false, not morally right or wrong. Morality is a lens that must be completely orthogonal to any model of how things work.
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