I hate standpoint theory so much it’s the biggest blight in talking to people to people on anything.
You can be educated on something but then they go 'erm but I come from this background "
I hate it so much it’s so anti intellectual
I hate standpoint theory so much it’s the biggest blight in talking to people to people on anything.
You can be educated on something but then they go 'erm but I come from this background "
I hate it so much it’s so anti intellectual
It is a form of essentialism, and essentialism is the philosophy that underlies reactionary politics.
“Look for answers by assigning an immutable category to everything.”
Liberals are reactionaries
Reactionaries are essentialists; liberals are relativists. Liberals are vulnerable to reactionary positions because the liberal approach does not definitively invalidate reactionary views.