/lit/ - Literature

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Existentialists/Phenomenologists and Marxists have always been anti-identitarian, believe it or not, and the Postmodernists who followed them went further still. They all reject the idea of human essence, gender essence, race essence, etc. Identity politics at most is allowed for strategic subversive purposes. It's called "strategid essentialism." Normally, the French/German 19th-20th century continental philosophers agree almost unanimously that essentialism is false and bad. But some post-colonialists say you can use pretend-essentialism for good purposes and that's the most they allow. This is lost on the "woke" masses who don't actually read philosophy and just read Twitter/Tumblr digests of other Twitter/Tumblr digests of other ... and so on several times, til you finally arrive at tertiary sources at BEST (like Wikipedia/YouTube). Very few of these people read primary sources (the original philosophers) or secondary sources (books on those philosophers). But that's not a "woke" problem, it's a people problem. For example, /lit/ is exactly the same, and the whole world. Very few people fucking read original works. So this sort of crap happens a lot, regardless of politics.