There's this interesting overlap between Muslim traditionists and right-wing conservatives who both dislike the social justice movement, critical theory etc because they want to preserve traditional epistemology (and whether they admit it or not, traditional power structures)
The present moment should be read within the context of the present moment. Borrowing the intellectual tools or classifications of another era in order to understand the present moment may be an interesting intellectual exercise, but is ultimately nothing more than that.
Our ideas are a reflection of our lived experiences. It is shortsighted and unwise to try to interrogate the ideas and their intellectual history only, instead of looking at the lived realities that have made certain different segments of the population adopt different ideas.
In other words, instead of getting angry that certain people have certain ideas, let's question the injustices, inequities, institutional discrimination, etc that has caused a disparity in lived experiences, which translates to a difference in ideas... but oops, I'm going CT
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