If I had to pick out one feature of postmodernism that best defines it, I'd say the idea that objectivity doesn't exist, not even as an ideal to be approached. DiAngelo and Kendi both repeat this idea, as do local social justice leaders I know. Is that the best defining feature to point to? Is there a better defining feature? Is there any better source for this idea than postmodernism? Maybe critical theory?
Helen Pluckrose says that activists decided in the '90s that, while postmodernism applies to society in general, it should not apply to race. On issues of race, boundaries are to be policed instead of blurred. Rachel Dolezal, for example, is not black. See Pluckrose's book Cynical Theories.
If I had to pick out one feature of postmodernism that best defines it, I'd say the idea that objectivity doesn't exist, not even as an ideal to be approached. DiAngelo and Kendi both repeat this idea, as do local social justice leaders I know. Is that the best defining feature to point to? Is there a better defining feature? Is there any better source for this idea than postmodernism? Maybe critical theory?
Helen Pluckrose says that activists decided in the '90s that, while postmodernism applies to society in general, it should not apply to race. On issues of race, boundaries are to be policed instead of blurred. Rachel Dolezal, for example, is not black. See Pluckrose's book Cynical Theories.