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Essentialism is a kind of violence. Science is illegitimate or suspect. Scientific facts are constructed by extratheoretical interests. Knowledge is just an expression of power. Power is domination. No truth claims can be grounded. There are no facts, only interpretations. Every perspective is equally legitimate. All knowledge is relative to an individual’s standpoint. If a term or concept was formulated in a colonial context, it must be false, and deploying it is a kind of violence. Classification is a form of conceptual imperialism. All binaries are violent hierarchies. Every system or structure is established on the grounds of something that it both excludes and presupposes. Concepts are fundamentally fraught. Every abstraction is a loss. Everything is discourse. Meaning is differential. Meaning is constantly deferred and can never be stabilized. Language determines thought. Being is always already before language. Philosophy is phallocentric or logocentric. Logic is merely the codification of heteronormative, white, male thinking. There are no more metanarratives. History is over. Knowledge is impossible.

>> No.19218943

>>19218918
> Logic is merely the codification of heteronormative, white, male thinking.
I don’t know why people associate the ideas of philosophical scepticism, an ancient school of thought, with the paltry orthodoxies of the school of ressentiment… not to say it has no insights whatsoever…

>> No.19219225

>>19218918
A fedora was tipped. OP used both his hands to tip it. OP did his dual tipping counter clockwise

>> No.19219247

>>19218918
>Essentialism is a kind of violence
shut up tranny

>> No.19219249

>>19218918
Based. Only my strength and will is real. Emotions are real.

>> No.19219260

>>19219247
Trannies believe in essentialism, though.

>> No.19219291

>>19218918
tell me you're a postmodern lefty without telling me you're a postmodern lefty

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>>19218918
The inferior always resort to this cope but it never diminishes their inferiority. Maybe if you believed in the real world you could parse cause and effect to escape the overwhelming mediocrity that is your life.

>> No.19219323

>>19219291
> Literally parrots Foucault
Quite the obfuscation, really. Pat yourself on the back for deducing that one, Sherlock.

>> No.19219853

>>19219291
Leftists are renouncing postmodern thinking and it's mainly used by right wingers these days.

>> No.19219864

>>19218918
>Essentialism is a kind of violence
Reality is a kind of violence. Get the fuck over it. Essentialism is just a means of understanding that violence and properly categorizing it.

>> No.19219890

>>19219864
Brainlet tier take

>> No.19219946

>>19219890
Nope, it is the only take which can be made by someone with a functioning mind.

>> No.19219959

>>19218918
If something has no essence, can it even be said to exist? No. Either something exists, or it does not. Take a human. Does it have an essence? Some say that humans are just collections of particles, but that seems to imply that there is no man.