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Postmodernist suppositions regarding power and ideology include an implicit assumption that absolute truth doesn't exist. That used to be called relativism. I
by slumdev 5y ago
Postmodernist suppositions regarding power and ideology include an implicit assumption that absolute truth doesn't exist.
That used to be called relativism.
It's ad hominem at scale -- an attack on the institutions that produced centuries of good work rather than an honest confrontation of the work itself.
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