Both the far left and the far right endorse the notion of the “social construction” of reality and the claim that objectivity is impossible, or superfluous.https://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1321951708239536129 …
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Who on the right makes the argument for this? (The left *explicitly* makes the argument in journals, books, policy papers, etc.)
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Racialists (the Nazis did this at the time).
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The Nazis were *National Socialists.* When he asked ‘who on the right...,’ he meant ‘right of Center,’ not ‘right of Communism.’
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Lol they don't make *arguments* for this, they *govern* like this.
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Some pundits talk vaguely about rightwing postmodernism, but I'm yet to see a source or citation that pins such thinking on any actual conservatives. Not saying definitively that there isn't one, but I read pretty widely and I've never encountered such an odd beast.
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The social construction of reality is the lived experience of the right-wing. Post-structuralism was prescient in creating theories to explain it.
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Krugman = Jumps the Shark (again)
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I think this is a reference to “alternative facts” or calling some true things “fake news”
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