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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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