This article makes its case very poorly and misrepresents a few things. It's not at all clear who the "postmodernists" are; it appears to be any professor not i

This article makes its case very poorly and misrepresents a few things. It's not at all clear who the "postmodernists" are; it appears to be any professor not in a STEM field. It goes through a bunch of unconnected anecdotes that, yes, illustrate a pattern and then says "this is bad, and it's due to postmodernism". In the parts where it attempts to make an argument, it misrepresents: >> This is a shift in Marxist theory from class conflict to identity politics conflict; instead of judging people by the content of their character, they are now to be judged by the color of their skin (or their ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, et cetera). I hear this talking point a lot, but that argument is a straw-man. The argument is not that people should be "judged by the color of their skin". The point is that they already are, frequently in subtle ways. You therefore have to address these things explicitly if you're to have any hope of counteracting them. If you don't, you're perpetuating the status quo without addressing how we got to it or what its problems might be.[1] >> Students are being taught by these postmodern professors that there is no truth, that science and empirical facts are tools of oppression by the white patriarchy, and that nearly everyone in America is racist and bigoted Are they actually being taught that "there is no truth"? I suspect that it's more like "The way we frame and talk about 'truth' is itself the result of political and social forces, and that framework of conservation is worth examining critically." I haven't read enough postmodernist philosophy to be sure. Neither, I suspect, has the author of the OP. As for the "everyone is racist" thing, this is, again, frequently misrepresented. It conjures up images of professors telling their students that everybody is throwing around racial slurs behind their backs. The actual point is that our society suffers from systemic racism, and everybody living in it plays a part, and it's important to be conscious of that part. Listen, maybe you disagree with all of this. You're allowed. But if you want to argue, you should argue against the strongest points being made, rather than the points drawn from articles written by people whose goal is to point and laugh. Recognize that, if you've never opened up a book on gender theory or literary criticism, then you are maybe not qualified to reject the entire fields out of hand. [1](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36FbHXsEuzM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36FbHXsEuzM), a clip from the noted philosophical work Adventure Time.