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Without naming the forums’ participant in this post—and because the goal isn’t to kick someone when they are already down— reading the said participant’s recent posts made me consider more seriously the toxic and counterproductive mode of thinking currently taking place in our educational institutions (but no longer exclusive to them).
I’m talking about the perspective of reality and power by postmodernist-influenced groups, and their systematic replacement of reality with subjective and noncommensurable social-linguistic constructs, that vary across conflicting groups based on dimensions such as sex, ethnicity, race, religion, and wealth.
There appears to be a endless race to create sub-divisions within a population unit, assign a value or hierarchical system to them, and then use words as a rhetorical weapon to attack any group ’higher’ up this value system, with the aim of attaining social and political power.
Their modus operandi is for individuals to self-categorise themselves, sum up their ‘negative group’ affiliations (negative would equate to lower power values), and then use rhetoric and lobbying to invalidate the opinion of individuals with a higher positive values than theirs.
But unfortunately for them, we individuals don’t really view reality and society in this hierarchical manner. For example, outside of this hierarchical system, there really isn’t a clear cut affiliation of individuals to a given race. Women, unless coerced to by this mode of thinking, will rarely box themselves within the category ‘women’, much less an arbitrarily defined number of other categories.
Anyway, and you might not even agree with the above, but i would like to go further into the long-term outcomes this mode of thinking will lead to, for the individual and society as a whole.
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