Sidebar: Postmodern Fallacies

May 2007 -- Postmodern scholars assert the following contradictory claims: 

• All truth is relative, yet postmodernism tells it like it really is.
• All cultures are equally deserving of respect; yet Western culture is uniquely destructive and bad.
• All values are subjective; but sexism and racism are irredeemably evil.
• Technology is bad and destructive; but it is unfair that some people have more technology than others.
• Tolerance is good and domination is bad; but wherever postmodernists come to power, such as the campuses, enforced “political correctness” follows. 

• The West is deeply racist–even though the West ended slavery.
• The West is deeply sexist–even though Western women were the first to get the vote, contractual rights, and employment opportunities that most women in the world still lack.
• Western capitalist countries subjugate and exploit the poor–even though the poor in the West are far richer and have far greater economic opportunities than the poor anywhere else.

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