Postmodernism began with the noble goal of unmasking the implicit imperialism of modernist worldviews. But, ironically, it has itself become imperialist, insisting that postmodernists alone have the ability to unmask everyone else’s underlying interests and motives—to deconstruct and debunk them. It thereby essentially silences every other perspective. Worse, if you do not share postmodernism’s specific definition of diversity, it is likely to be imposed by force. An article in the Atlantic observes that “political correctness morphed into a tyranny of speech codes, sensitivity training, and
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