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To: wastedyears

You don't understand, the Democrats think that history is nothing but a bunch of meta narratives or stories that were put together to present a one sided world view.

(from the American Standard on the Duke case, discussing the gang of 88 professors) Postmodern theorists pride themselves in discerning what they call "meta-narratives." They argue that such concepts as, say, Christianity or patriotism or the American legal system are no more than socially constructed tall tales that the postmodernists can then "deconstruct" to unmask the real purpose behind them, which is (say the postmodernists) to prop up societal structures of--yes, you guessed it--race, gender, class, and white male privilege.


10 posted on 02/08/2007 11:49:20 AM PST by Eva
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To: Eva; Winged Hussar

Great post! Now, I wonder about this:

"and leftwing nongovernmental organization's."

If this is floating around 'political contributions' then exactly where do NONgovernmental orgs fit in? Is that the CYA for Soros?


22 posted on 02/09/2007 4:57:09 AM PST by Froufrou
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