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Re:The Unfortunate Fallout of Campus Postmodernism by angersock on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @03:00PM (#15553087)
> "Post-modern beliefs" are mostly pretty straight forward criticism that shouldn't be controversial to a thoughtful person.

Things like "race and gender are mere cultural constructs", as examples?

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Re:The Unfortunate Fallout of Campus Postmodernism by qntty on Wednesday October 25, 2017 @03:29PM (#15553320)
It's hard to deny that there is at least some part of our concepts of race and gender that aren't based in biology, but in social patterns. Are they entirely socially constructed? I don't think so.
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