Postmodernism Contradictions - Ultra Thread

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Here are some of the main contradictions I see in Post-Modernism:

1. Naturalistic (Is/Ought) Fallacy

- How can you make a moral decision, justify it, and try to convince others to join your cause if your position is relative?

2. Cancel Culture

- Isn't multiculturalism a feature of postmodernism? Isn't cancel culture counter-multiculturalism? How can you celebrate multiculturalism but then pick and choose perspectives you don't agree with and try to cancel those? Your cherry picking.

3. Absolute Truth

- How can you say absolute reality doesn't exist when all of your ideas are occurring in some basic reality that which is shared?

 

I think the main one I want to point out here is cancel culture. What is the purpose of cancel culture? How can you say you are pro-diversity and are pro-cancel culture. Some people will say they are so pro-diversity that they are against all perspectives that try to undermine diversity. You can take this position, but notice that you are being just like the anti-diversity people when you take the attitude of cancel culture. In a way, you are no better than phobic/discriminatory people because cancel culture itself is a form of social shunning and silence. White supremists and lgbtq+phobes are trying to silence voices already. I can understand the need to silence their voices to silence others' voices. There are circumstances where fake news may need to be silenced because of the harms it can do to others. The line here isn't so clear as to what speak and perspectives we should allow. Going too far extreme on either cancel culture or free culture can be dismantling. But notice that being pro-diversity is more in alignment with free-culture; otherwise, it is selective diversity.