electerrific

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (13 children)

Yeah, we already knew nofap was a hate group.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Derrida and the people he inspired, paraphrased:

Historically, white supremacy has venerated the idea of objectivity, and wielded a dichotomy of 'subjectivity vs. objectivity' as a means of silencing oppressed peoples. The idea that there is a single truth - 'the Truth' - is a construct of the Euro-West that is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment, which was a movement that also described Black and Brown people as both subhuman and impervious to pain.

This construction is a myth and white supremacy, imperialism, colonization, capitalism, and the United States of America are all of its progeny. The idea that the truth is an entity for which we must search, in matters that endanger our abilities to exist in open spaces, is an attempt to silence oppressed peoples. For the past several decades, people like Derrida have called reason into question, especially the sort of rationalist worldview that emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. There is a direct path from the so-called Enlightenment to Auschwitz, and Donald Trump too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Because he was an influential post-modernist thinker whose ideas were like corrosive acid to the fabric of the West.

Why do people have to be 100% pure? Can't they have some good ideas and some bad ideas, and you cherry-pick the good ones?