postmodernism came to mean that a middle-aged black male will have a different experience, and so a different truth, from a young white male, who will have a different truth from an older Hispanic female. Their individual perspectives determine “what is true for them,” and anything they say on a given subject is their political right—and that right comes only from personal experience as a member of an identity group, and is tempered by the relative implicit power of that group in society. While this may be true in certain realms of politics and social intercourse, it is not true when it comes
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