[Jabanga]

This is toxic postmodernist/feminist dogma.

It frames everything through a lens of identity power struggles. Therefore, whether an argument is scientific and factual is secondary to what identity group the person making it belongs to, and what their group stands to gain from it.

This ideological lens is anti-science, anti-cooperation, extremely racist/sexist and ultimately focused on only one objective: reducing the power of the group perceived as being at the top of the social dominance hierarchy.

[clavalle]

The author of the memo framed his argument in exactly this way.

To quote the memo:

"As it became clear that the working class of the liberal democracies wasn’t going to overthrow their “capitalist oppressors,” the Marxist intellectuals transitioned from class warfare to gender and race politics. The core oppressor-oppressed dynamics remained, but now the oppressor is the “white, straight, cis-gendered patriarchy.”"

The author literally thinks 'Left' policies are part of a Communist power struggle.

If the above comment is toxic, then so is the original memo.

[foolrush]

You realize that science is ideological, epistemological, and political?

Edit: I appreciate all of the vote downs. Empiricism is as guilty in choosing models according to power dynamics as any ideological endeavor. See phrenology. To suggest science isn't political and ideological is absolutely delusional.

[highfiveui]

Is science not about finding the truth above all else?

[kthejoker2]

Mm .... Maybe?

Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions has the most relevant writing on this.

[foolrush]

The search for truth is fundamentally epistemological. There is a fascinating dive into just what science is, when it began, etc.

One might disagree with his language, but this post is remarkably insightful to begin such a dive:

http://fucktheory.tumblr.com/post/57633497486/in-which-steve...

[Jabanga]

That is the postmodern anti-science belief, which assumes that truth is not really truth. It is just a device used in power struggles between identity groups. It's so extreme that there was actually paper published on feminist glaciology [1]. This is not science. It is just dogma and actually hostile to the principle of science as a pursuit of objective truth carried out by people of good faith.

[1] http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309132515623368

[daughart]

You should read a little about the history and sociology of science.

[foolrush]

Feel free to explore what truth is. Hint: You will end up in epistemology. It is also clear you have never read a Postmodern text in your life.