The postmodernists sought to deconstruct the meta-narratives that have been historically significant for humankind, such as religion, science and rationality. But the overlapping schools of Critical Social Justice, intersectionality and identitarianism, have merely created a new meta-narrative, one in which their advocates position themselves as being ‘on the right side of history’. In other words, although these movements are postmodernist in origin, their grasp of postmodernism is insecure.
