>empiricism is not real but racism is empirically bad or somethingHow was critical theory ever taken seriously?
>>18391209We need to deconstruct le traditional values but NEVER EVER deconstruct Basic Human Decency, liberal-democracy or muh Human Rights TM
>>18391219We can mock it, but that actually WAS the winning philosophical model of western modernity. The neoliberal system is underpinned by exactly those kinds of precepts. There must be something effective/powerful ABOUT those precepts for this to be the case.
>>18391230>that actually WAS the winning philosophical model of western modernitythe most influential group in the West, Jews, laugh at this stuff and have always been hardcore racists behind closed doors
>>18391219Actually they are in favor of deconstructing the Enlightenment (which led to liberal philosophy), it's not fashionable in academia anymore
>>18391385This, postcolonialism has literally just devolved into “if brown good, if white bad.”If browns are enlightened and liberal, it’s le good. If browns are reactionary and trying to preserve their culture, it’s somehow also le good.But if whites are enlightened and liberal it’s le bad, and it’s also le bad if they are reactionary and try to preserve their culture.
>>18391394That is true in practice, but the broader question is how and when things came to be like that, at least in western academia.
>>18391209I don't know about Habermas, but Marcuse was a literal fed who worked for the American CIA and its predecessor the OSS. So, you have to wonder when their 'philosophy' is actually an attempt to shape or promote specific state narratives.
>>18391209>How was critical theory ever taken seriously?They have a lot of goods points; most of anthropology points towards culture being a dominant and integral part in determining one's outcome and personality.The whole cultural stuff occurred because the working class left the socialist movement, from which the critical theory emerged in the first place (See Lukacs, Adorno, Frankfurt School etc). This lead to a political vacuum to be filled with students and minorities which demanded cultural recognition rather than economical emancipation.>>18391457As >>18391967 pointed out, it's due to political interference and because, as stated earlier, of the slow decomposition of the socialist movement into what it is today.This evolution created implicit moral norms (racism/nationalism = bad) that were especially prescient in the critical theory. Technically, you can read their stuff without becoming a moralizing shit, but due to how academia got structured, there was simply no way around it for most people.
>>18391394>postcolonialism has literally just devolved into “if brown good, if white bad.”Totally false. A ton of the critique is directed against many brown and black figures. Why asspull stuff you don't know shit about? The rest if your post is sad sack reactionary garbage.
>>18391989>This evolution created implicit moral norms (racism/nationalism = bad)In what way would they be good? Both are ultimately self-destructive and have no real end goal asides from trying to farm "targets".>>18391263>Jews, laugh at this stuff and have always been hardcore racists behind closed doorsJews aren't a monolith.
>>18391989>which demanded cultural recognition rather than economical emancipation.Can't really do much if you aren't recognized as a member/equal or that certain problems are more "worthy" of attention than others. That's how many unions started falling apart and started becoming shitty little clubs.
