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Balrog0 posted...

the other side: you don't see how defending hierarchies and specifically the patriarchy makes him alt-right?

his side: you don't see how believing X actually means he's a Marxist?

Isn't that the same thing?

No.

There's a fundamental difference between the two, both in level of effort put into their arguments and on the intended effect of the conclusion. "The other side" is trying to bucket him in with the same label that's also reserved for the KKK and using that as justification for deplatforming him. "his side" believes that Derrida's deconstructionist movement shares a lot of common ground with marxism in part due to his marxist background, and that's reason to question the efficacy of those specific policy positions being proposed by that movement. Derrida literally wrote a book on how to inherit "the spirit of marxism". It's literally called something like the Spectre of Marxism.

There's far more nuance to "his side's" argument than his detractors, and "his side" isn't attempting to silence anyone. It's like comparing a basic math problem and calculus and saying they're the same because they're both math.
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