Paul's Blog

 Postmodernists, intersectional feminists and critical race theorists did not invent the idea that society and culture can strongly influence how we think and speak. There IS often truth in claiming certain types of knowledge are to varying degrees social constructs BUT some can take this truth, and this insight, and be so EXTREME in how they understand this truth AND how they will act based on their exaggerated and extreme understanding of knowledge and morality and “truths” etc all being social constructs - and it can be taken to the level of insanity in being so radically sceptical of obtaining any objective truths. Intellectual madness can result in seeing the biases of white, western, heterosexual males embedded all over the place in all the different knowledge produced in Western Europe and USA from about 1650 to about 1950. Some knowledge is simply knowledge. The maths and physics which gives us everything from modern transport to satellites to our cell/mobile phones etc can...

 Over the past 2 years I have read a lot and studied some courses online... Some recent various  and miscellaneous thoughts regarding postmodernism, applied postmodernism, intersectional feminism, critical race theory, gender studies, queer studies, fat studies and any or all other “grievance studies”..... Why do scholars in these fields seem to so often ignore and or disregard the appalling (sometimes nightmare) levels of sexism, misogyny, racism and homophobia etc that occurs in many non western, non white and non Christian nations and cultures? Why does it often seem their focus is 99% on the racism, sexism and homophobia that occurs in functioning Western democracies, when the reality is that most functioning Western democracies have come so far since the 1950s/1960s in becoming WAY LESS racist and sexist and homophobic? And when colonialism and imperialism is condemned why is it almost always only the colonialism and imperialism of Western Europe and the USA that is conde...