Darryl Byram

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The commitment to always trusting one’s feelings, rather than trying to be objective or charitable, reflects the Social Justice focus on experiential over objective knowledge. This is also tied to identity. Marginalized people’s experiences and emotions are, for Theory, authoritative (when they support Theory, that is; they’re false in one way or another when they don’t).
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
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