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I don't completely agree with him, but I interpreted him as saying: Deconstruction is often employed in intellectually dishonest (or lazy) ways to discredit co
by Mezzie 5y ago
I don't completely agree with him, but I interpreted him as saying:
Deconstruction is often employed in intellectually dishonest (or lazy) ways to discredit concepts by creating/employing tenuous links between a concept and its socio-cultural associations and refusing to actually elaborate on why they matter. This is often done in order to attack a concept for political reasons (as opposed to strictly intellectual ones), and people who do this are committing a tactical error. Giving legitimacy to these intellectually vacuous attacks as a tactic ensures that they'll be used against currently popular ideas in the future when they fall out of vogue.