agreed, identifying something as (at least partly) constructed by society is where the discourse should begin, not where it should end
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so we're in total agreement about all this then what do you see as the "flaws in social constructivism"? is it just that "x is a social construct" is often used as a thought-terminating cliche?
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dunno about elkus but that's minor compared to how absolutist social constructivism necessarily implies that all social constructs are arbitrary, so there's no reason we can't have the social constructs we want and only those and any problems that happen are because of wreckers
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i mean, to the extent that social constructions operationalize underlying facts, that is obviously not true, social constructs are certainly not arbitrary only the sith, etc, but a less total theory of social constructivism is actually quite useful
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fully concur, it's just the version where the endgame is using social power to make everybody pretend the reality of the week is true, i.e. The Trump Management Style But Woke, that i'm mad at
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this is definitely a thing that happens sometimes, but noticing it opens up the possibility of misdiagnosing assertions you'd prefer not to accept as being made in good faith as mere 'realities of the week', which I think ends up just being another thought-terminating cliche
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could be, wabbit
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