This is the philosophical equivalent of a biologist examining every tree, leaf, and branch, and then proclaiming he had not seen a forrest...just some leaves, branches, trunks and seeds.

This is common :
"that isn't what Derrida meant by trace."

I could talk about how every experience must point beyond itself, or about oresence and absence and differance and meaning is always endlessly differed and all the rest...

Or .....
I could say "this is the bit about what Derrida said that people took and ran with, and here is what they did with it"

I'm not getting bogged down in a discussion of Greman Phenomenology.
I'd read the Crisis of the European sciences if I was.
How Derrida thinks about metaphysics, arche-writing differance and deconstruction is relevant, but is how those things actually got used.

IE: Derrida was asked about deconstruction is Seinfeld and he said "deconstruction, as I understand it, does not produce any sitcom."
But Rorty thought irony and parody were cites of Deconstruction and so deconstruction does prduce sitcoms, amd Seinfeld is one.

How Dereida uses andnunderstand deconstruction, trace, and arche-writing matters...but so does how it was used.

And because Derrida was wrong...
We need to look at what the effects of that were.

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22 Oct
The woke: "tHeRe'S nO PoStMoDeRnIsM iN cRiTiCaL RaCe ThEoRy"

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Hello philosophy Bro's and CRT people:

The point here is to show Critical Race Theorists have absolutley made use of postmodern ideas and tools even though many of them claim a commitment to liberalism, and have been aware and discussing the tension since the early 90's
This shows CRT has been trying to figure out how to use postmodern theory for a long time.
And, as it turns out, intersectionality was how they brought postmodern theory and politics together. From Kimberlee Crenshaws essay "mapping the Margins": Image
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20 Oct
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I mean, dude, it's right in your own quote. Mills likes what postmodernism does politically and he says so in the highlited portion of the bit YOU quoted. Also, he seemingly accepts large portions of Postmodernism via postcolonial theory (hence his focus on deimperialism).... Image
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Yes, he rejects the move of some of the postmoderns to be skeptical of all meta narratives.

But postmoderns did away with the "incredulity toward meta narratives" since Kimberlee Crenshaw wrote "Mapping the Margins" and she states explicitly that....
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Is a “provisional concept linking contemporary politics with postmodern theory."

So yeah, they don't accept the postmodern conclusion that doubts all and every metanarrative. They do accept many other aspects of postmodernism and he says so...
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19 Oct
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EVERYTHING IS ROOTED IN WHITE SUPREMACY!!!

-holidays
-Disneyland
-theater
-Doctors
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-libraries

The Woke think everything is "rooted in white supremacy." Understanding why they say this is key to cracking the code of woke ideology.

So let's look at it

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"Rooted in White Supremacy" is a term from woke academic literature, so it comes loaded with the worldview of wokeness; And the worldview of the wokeness is NOT the same as the worldview of enlightenment liberalism.

The worldview of wokeness is postmodernism.
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This means there's more going on then it first appears.

In 1997 the critical race theorist Charles Mills wrote "The Racial Contract," and the first sentence in that book is: "White supremacy is the unnamed political system that has made the modern world what it is today."
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16 Oct
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Woke people are liars.

They are blatant hypocrites. Always. Every time. Without exception.

The only reason she wants to "end civility" is when she wants to drag someone or do her bullying
But....

@courtneymilan
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If she gets dragged she will cry "this is harassment" and play victim.

Everything they do is like this. All of it.

All the little rules and conventions they try to make us adopt are just they attempts at making social rules that allow them to bully people. That's it.
3/
Every one of their silly little social expectations, all their social memes are just attempts at justifying their power moves, treating people badly, or excusing their terrible behavior.
And all of it is laced with bitterness and resentment.

All of it...
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14 Oct
Today Mazie Hirono said the term "sexual preference" is offensive. @SteveKrak showed as of September 28 Merriam-Webster didn't say it was offensive, but today it does say that.
So I checked when the entry was last changed according to merriam webster and *THEY CHANGED IT TODAY* ImageImageImageImage
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13 Oct
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To understand why Social Justice (woke) advocates think the way they do, you need to understand that they have been completely poisoned with cynicism.

This is why they act like they "see right through your bullshit" even when you are being 100% honest.

Let me explain:
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When I say poisoned with cynicism, I mean that woke people have adopted a worldview that says that the words and actions of other people are not to be trusted or taken at face value:
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This means that the woke view every conversation or discussion with a person who disagrees with them like it is a conversation with a dishonest car salesman, and the goal is to unmask the "real motives" of the other person.

The existence of hidden motives is assumed...
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