This is fascinating.

I’d suggest the conceptual flaw running through all sides of this argument is a misunderstanding of #StandpointTheory. This is the simple but radical idea that we are all #SituatedActors, embodied in place & culture: where we look from, the tools we use to look with & the concepts we use to frame our perceptions determine what we see……

https://theconversation.com/how-a-new-identity-focused-ideology-has-trapped-the-left-and-undermined-social-justice-217085

“The ‘positivist’ ideals of value neutrality and objectivity embody the very principles of egalitarianism and democracy [that ‘critical’ theorists] claim to subscribe to.”

van den Berg & Jeong (2022):

https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-022-00750-8

https://rdcu.be/c3T9k

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