>The problem, at least in US general social discourse, it everything is viewed through an essentialist lens. Which is the highest of ironic outcomes to critica

>The problem, at least in US general social discourse, it everything is viewed through an essentialist lens. Which is the highest of ironic outcomes to critical theory in American humanities departments spending the 80s and 90s trying to get us all to grasp the instability of monolithic framing of identities, historicism, etc Edit: TBF, people like Wendy Brown at UC-Berkeley saw this coming in the late 90s