Think of it this way: If all claims can be deconstructed, then what about the claim that the rich should not oppress the poor? Or that we should resist bigotry and racism? Those claims, too, can be deconstructed. Thus postmodernism may appear to be radical, but as Jacobs writes, “it is in fact unable to offer resistance to the political status quo.” 40 Lived out consistently, postmodernism leads to complicity with evil and injustice.
