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not being combative, but who were these intellectuals who countered critical theory and all of its bastards?

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Specifically? I recall Juden Peterson talking several years ago in a video about postmodernism/neo-marxism and mentioning the rise of intersectional feminism and how theoretically, intersectionality should allow us to reveal the infinite variety of human experiences and return to the individual as a common denominator.

In the book Cynical Theories Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay discuss this point as well but clarify that Intersectionality, instead of being a subtractive process (as reason would argue), it is being used as an additive process - heaping opressed or opressing atributes onto people to create a profile, like a scorecard.

Black (+), woman (+), disabled (+), fat (+), gay (+), transgender (+), man (-), white (-), heterosexual (-), able-bodied (-), thin (-)

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thank you for the detailed response.

but really it's all just seems psychobabble nonsense. they now need a seven-word title to just say individualism.

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Yes, postmodernism is all about controlling the conversation via (amongst other things) confusing language.

You should read Cynical Theories. It does a great job of explaining the path from postmodernism's origins and meaningless, ironic wordplay to the canonized pseudo-religion of the social justice disciplines.