Thread by @wokal_distance

This is correct.

The late 80's was the point where Postmodernism was alloyed with Critical theory.

It began with Critical Race Theory (the first CRT conference was in 1987) and Gender Studies (AKA Queer Theory) which began with Gayle Rubin's 1984 essay 'Thinking Sex'...

https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1529151449996832769

Both Critical Race Theory and Queer theory (sometime people called gender theory or gender ideology but Queer Theory is the name used in Academia) borrowed elements from Critical Theory and postmodernism amd fused them into a single way of thinking about the world.

Further...

The 1980's is when Henry Giroux mixed Paulo Fiere's Critical Theory of education with Postmodernism. In 1988 Giroux wrote "Border pedagogy and the politics of postmodernism."

The alloy of Critical Theory and postmodernism giroux applied to education he called "Critical pedagogy"

So in the late 1980's we have the creation of:
1. Critical Race Theory
2. Queer Theory
3. Critical Pedagogy.

So, the theories of race and gender you see everywhere now in connection with "Social Justice" and the education theories you see in schools that teach that stuff...

Were all developed at around the same time.

One last point...

All these theories are social theories which have baked into them both a view of how society works, how humans beings function, and a moral vision for how society ought to work...

That moral vision is based on...

The sensibilities of the theorists in conjunction with how they think the world works, and how they see human nature.

That vision is both unrealistic and dystopian.

I can't unpack the entire thing here (although a thread is coming on that) but these theorists want to reorder...

All of society along the axis of their moral vision as it is derived from their theories, which are filled with the relativism latent in postmodern thought.

It's high time the moral vision of these people be exposed to the sunlight of rigorous enlightement liberal methods.

/fin