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Re:Thinking Critically About Social Justice by closeparen on Monday February 19, 2018 @10:32PM (#16417659)
See, you're subscribing to the model where there is an objective truth that we access through rational methods, empiricism, and debate, where the outputs of the process you call "critical thinking" are to be privileged over other statements. The new leftism rejects your premise. According to my college classmates, the notion of objective reality is a social construct popularized by white men to reinforce their power.

I don't know how much credence that particular claim gets, but the broader context is apparently a whole academic movement [0]. Guess I took the wrong philosophy sequence.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernism

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Re:Thinking Critically About Social Justice by da_chicken on Tuesday February 20, 2018 @02:32PM (#16423353)
No, I'm subscribing to the idea that relabeling things and being sectarian isn't particularly useful, especially because sectarianism is exactly the problem. Just because there are idiots who are liberals doesn't mean we need a new category for them so they aren't called liberals because they might make liberals look bad.
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