The 'truth' doesn't matter, all that matters is what you can get away with using rhetorical smoke & mirrors.
More and more I see it as the direct cladistic intellectual predecessor of (((postmodernism))).
Just put scare-quotes around truth when it's time to deconstruct someone else's viewpoint, without substantively addressing any of their claims.
Then, ignore that you just did that when it's time to exhort your viewpoint.
If pressed on this obvious contradiction, retreat to the motte and cry about identity politics. Ignore the metaphysical/epistemological/ontological connections between the notions of 'identity' and 'truth' that further muddle your special pleading. Pray that no one you are trying to convince with this chicanery has ever pondered so much as a syllogism.
Talmudic mindset:
More and more I see it as the direct cladistic intellectual predecessor of (((postmodernism))).
Just put scare-quotes around truth when it's time to deconstruct someone else's viewpoint, without substantively addressing any of their claims.
Then, ignore that you just did that when it's time to exhort your viewpoint.
If pressed on this obvious contradiction, retreat to the motte and cry about identity politics. Ignore the metaphysical/epistemological/ontological connections between the notions of 'identity' and 'truth' that further muddle your special pleading. Pray that no one you are trying to convince with this chicanery has ever pondered so much as a syllogism.