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Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by duxup on Saturday December 03, 2022 @03:07PM (#33846794)
I think one aspect that is a challenge to understand what people thought about that is that it was a big trigger online. But for my experience less IRL. I think the academic / intellectual-ish (well the folks who think of them as that way) types bought into it. I'm really not sure many other folks did.
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Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by poszlem on Saturday December 03, 2022 @03:14PM (#33846862)
I think part of the reason why this is so much more visible online is the fact that the whole online world is the world of words.

For example, the idea that you can "be violent" toward someone by not affirming them is a profoundly online idea, because everybody here is only as real as they can convince us they are. If I told you I am an 80 y/o woman from Iceland there is not much you can do to verify that. Thus we end up in a culture where you HAVE to believe me, otherwise you are "literally erasing" me from existence.

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Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by Der_Einzige on Saturday December 03, 2022 @03:28PM (#33846984)
Sounds good, except that the critical theory, and other traditions that ascribe "violence" to written communication, had their first huge flare up with Situationalist International and those protests in france in the 60s. Well before the internet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Situationist_International https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_68

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Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by poszlem on Saturday December 03, 2022 @03:35PM (#33847041)
They did, and then they went away. For a long time it looked like postmodernism is dead. The reason we talk about it right now is because of the rise of the online culture, where suddenly a philosophy of fluidity and lack of physical boundaries can be finally applied.

Postmodernism wasn't a problem. "Applied Postmodernism" is (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XeXfV0tAxtE).

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Re:The Truth Matters and Secular Humanists Should Defend It by meheleventyone on Saturday December 03, 2022 @03:46PM (#33847160)
Actually given you probably don’t know Icelandic and it’s a small country that might be really easy to verify.
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