The Limitations of Standpoint Theory

Postmodern politics is a complete lack of material analysis of the political project of an individual in a position of power instead it's sort of these referential positions that we have and I think that's how you can end up with a situation where politics is essentially all simulation. Even if a group experiences a group consciousness and they're able to articulate to some degree their collective oppression one of the risks is that they still take their law quote unquote from the outside. Some sort of extrinsic force or idea or reified notion or concept of themselves can enclose that group and then reinstall the kinds of domination that these groups are trying to escape. This is the difference between identity politics in

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