God help us, Postmodernism and Critical Theory are intellectual malignancy.
Forget all the big words and the permutations - they are literally trying to twist logic to argue against morality. It's the same thing they do with literally everything.
Forget the sexuality arguments - take a simpler example: stealing.
Thou shalt not steal. Stealing is wrong. This is true in every human culture that I can think of save for some Pacific Islander nations where there was no external threat and they lived in relative abundance (but they are obviously the exception to the rule).
But is stealing always wrong? What about the person who steals to feed their starving family? There's a moral exception there.
Because black people have historically had a harder time feeding their families, and have historically suffered under unfair legal treatment, it should be excusable when they steal.
Throw some more buzzwords in there, hire an intellectual to make it sound compassionate and smart, and boom, this is how we arrived at San Francisco refusing to prosecute shoplifting.
The only problem -- this is staring into the abyss. And the abyss, by definition, has no bottom.
I don't understand everything you just said but I probably agree?
Anyway deconstruction applies perfectly here because that's the core tactic underlying critical theory. It is a mental framework common to all liberalism, but taken to the extreme with the postmodern movement. You take a world view that was always known to be accepted and correct, and analyze it from the point of view of being just one alternative on a spectrum of multiple alternatives. Then when your ideology "wins", suddenly what was normal before becomes a fringe belief.
God help us, Postmodernism and Critical Theory are intellectual malignancy.
Forget all the big words and the permutations - they are literally trying to twist logic to argue against morality. It's the same thing they do with literally everything.
Forget the sexuality arguments - take a simpler example: stealing.
Thou shalt not steal. Stealing is wrong. This is true in every human culture that I can think of save for some Pacific Islander nations where there was no external threat and they lived in relative abundance (but they are obviously the exception to the rule).
But is stealing always wrong? What about the person who steals to feed their starving family? There's a moral exception there.
Because black people have historically had a harder time feeding their families, and have historically suffered under unfair legal treatment, it should be excusable when they steal.
Throw some more buzzwords in there, hire an intellectual to make it sound compassionate and smart, and boom, this is how we arrived at San Francisco refusing to prosecute shoplifting.
The only problem -- this is staring into the abyss. And the abyss, by definition, has no bottom.
Human reason is imperfect. Postmodernism proved we can deconstruct anything, and rationalize away what we don't like.
I don't understand everything you just said but I probably agree?
Anyway deconstruction applies perfectly here because that's the core tactic underlying critical theory. It is a mental framework common to all liberalism, but taken to the extreme with the postmodern movement. You take a world view that was always known to be accepted and correct, and analyze it from the point of view of being just one alternative on a spectrum of multiple alternatives. Then when your ideology "wins", suddenly what was normal before becomes a fringe belief.