So, I've read a linked article and it's a bit more specific than "Americans don't like continental philosophy". First of all, I think there are a lot of issues

So, I've read a linked article and it's a bit more specific than "Americans don't like continental philosophy". First of all, I think there are a lot of issues with how the term "postmodernist" is applied. One should always distinguish valid applications such as Postmodernist Architecture, which is a very distinctive movement that does push forward certain concepts that existed in the Modernist architecture (you can look up the Bateson building and the philosophy behind it). Postmodernism in contemporary art is a much weaker application, in a sense that to kind of put every post-war artist(or post 70's) under this moniker doesn't really achieve much. The article discusses something which came to prominence not so long ago, the inclusion of the radical ideas in the mainstream left-wing discourse in States. I don't want to touch the identity/gender politics part here, but the death of meta-narrative the author attributes to Lyotard is an interesting part. What her main problem is if I understood that correctly - there are a number of ideas and symbols, which are close to the heart of "liberal democrat", and there is a certain metanarrative that she holds as true. And that is being attacked by relativists and deconstructionists. What are those symbols - Equality, Freedom, Science, Reason. And the metanarrative is the Path of Progress, move from the darkness to the light of civilization. Yet all of these symbols are quite problematic. Freedom often means free market and representative democracy and in extreme cases neoliberal worldview. Civilization served as the main excuse for subjugating the natives. Language of science was deployed to effectively introduce questionable government social policies by using "objective", "approved by experts" approach. Most of the slaves were sold in the Age of Enlightenment yet in the "bad" Dark Ages and Middle ages slavery was almost non-existent in the western world. My issue with her worldview is that she sincerely believes that good things that happened during Modern age - progress of sciences and bad things - Belgian Congo, for example, are not the inverse side of the same coin but are totally unrelated. James Watt research into steam was funded by slavery, not in a metaphorical sense but literally - his research was funded by plantation owners, and he himself had profited from slave trade.