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		nabnob on Sept 24, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I quit social media and now I want a cigarette It's not just conservatives. I'm an old school, anti-identity politics leftist and feminist, and the modern "left" is more concerned with using the right language than having the correct analysis or actually defending basic rights.

sascha_sl on Sept 24, 2019 [–]

Suggestion: Read Foucault.

nabnob on Sept 24, 2019 | [–]

Foucault and other post modernists defended pedophilia - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_petition_against_age_of...

I'll stick with Marx and dialectical materialism, which offer actual tools to fight systemic oppression, rather than moral relativism.

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