The Venn diagram of the people pushing critical race theory & critical queer theory is very nearly a circle. They’re all working from the playbook that gave us Rachel McKinnon’s “Norms of Assertion” thesis, about how lying is fine. It inevitably ruins ethical reasoning & empathy. 
https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1307877655262486538
Adding, the Woke union of postmodernism and critical theory sounds like the gray goo apocalypse of rational thought: it’s a set of memetic nanites that will keep following their algorithm until everything is deconstructed.
There are grains of truth and insight in all these frameworks,and a lot of them speak particularly well to women’s experiences. But it totalizes that into a political religion that rejects objective fact, and this is bad for feminists.
The fight for women’s liberation depends on having objective standards and the possibility for empathy. How did we convince men to give us the vote when we didn’t have it already?
Deciding that the world is an incommensurable power struggle, of necessity, won’t go well for us.
Deciding that the world is an incommensurable power struggle, of necessity, won’t go well for us.
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