Thread by @wokal_distance

When I told you all that Kristin Kobes Du Mez (@kkdumez) was using Postmodernism I was right. When I tell she's using Critical Theory I am also right.

Du Mez is not just "writing history." She is reading history through the cynical lens of Postmodernism and Critical Theory.

I told you all this. I was not wrong.

https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/1448893812290605064?s=20

Again, I said this to everyone I could find

https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/1383921930386829322?s=20

I was notying, nor was I beimg alarmist. I know postmodernism when I see it

https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/1383924931088420872?s=20

I also said she was clearly influenced by Critical theory, and I was correct about that as well.

https://twitter.com/wokal_distance/status/1451028592385683457?s=20

I didn't say that to attack her work because she's a woman or some nonsense like that. I said it becuase I know this stuff and I know postmodernism and Critical theory when I see it.

And now, to no one's surprise, she admits being influenced by marxism via Gramsci and Adorno

I'm not saying Kristin is using Postmodernism and Critical Theory because I want to maintain power, preserve privilege or undermine her becaise she's a woman.

I am saying @kkdumez is using Postmodernism, Critical Theory, and now Marxism because that is exactly what she is doing.

Once we see her admit her influences, these attempts by @kkdumez to either deny or downplay her postmoderism as if it was tangental to her work, rather than the lens through which she interprets history is something to behold.

Because if she deconstructs like a postmodernist, criticizes like a critical theorist, and reads others people's motives cynically like a postmodern critical theorist...she's probably using postmodernism and critical theory.

Downplaying those influences doesn't change that fact.