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To: Steely Tom

To the Left, “truth” is whatever advances Socialism, and anything which impedes Socialism is automatically false.


3 posted on 01/05/2014 9:30:47 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
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To: PapaBear3625; Crazieman
The left believes that reality itself is a social construct. They actually do believe reality is bigoted, because (they believe) the reality which we all experience as members of Western society was constructed by Dead White Males.

Here is an important touchstone of this concept, from The Social Construction of Reality, a 1966 book by Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann. The following quote is from the Wikipedia article on this book:

The work introduced the term social construction into the social sciences and was strongly influenced by the work of Alfred Schütz.

The central concept of Social Construction of Reality is that persons and groups interacting in a social system create, over time, concepts or mental representations of each other's actions, and that these concepts eventually become habituated into reciprocal roles played by the actors in relation to each other. When these roles are made available to other members of society to enter into and play out, the reciprocal interactions are said to be institutionalised. In the process of this institutionalisation, meaning is embedded in society.

Knowledge and people's conception (and belief) of what reality is becomes embedded in the institutional fabric of society. Reality is therefore said to be socially constructed.


8 posted on 01/05/2014 9:43:05 AM PST by Steely Tom (If the Constitution can be a living document, I guess a corporation can be a person.)
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To: PapaBear3625
To the Left, “truth” is whatever advances Socialism, and anything which impedes Socialism is automatically false.

Well said.

12 posted on 01/05/2014 9:56:08 AM PST by Dutch Boy
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