An interesting observation after traditional Christmas arguments with my right--wing relatives in Poland:
Alt-right is now talking 100% postmodernism.
History made full circle: half-century ago it was mostly far left who ranted about "gender aspect of mathematics" and "science as a social construct", basically denying humans ability to objectively describe reality.
These tools were initially forged by Marx to facilitate his wishful thinking about how societies operate that science did not support.
In 20th century far-left faced the same challenge and picked the same tools as they knew them well due to ideological compatibility and general inspiration by Marx.
Today the same Marx-inspired tools are being picked up by alt-right generation that talks about "evils of cultural Marxism" (a bullshit term on its own).
Sokal Affair was LOL, this is LOL squared.
@kravietz thinking critically about how science and our economies work is not about being on the left or on the right. Your relatives may be waking up.
@edsu He's not thinking "critically", this is an absolute opposite of critical thinking. He was just denying a basic physical observation because he didn't like its conclusions. At the same time he didn't deny Newton's laws of motion or Einstein's theory of relativity and he's benefiting from them on daily basis.
@kravietz ok, but Marx and Derrida were.