by Postmodernism — self-refuting nonsense Either (1) the Holocaust happened as a real, objective event in the past or (2) it did not as an objective fact, and any left-wing person who denies objective truth has got no business opposing, criticising and condemning the disgusting, shameful and ignorant fringe of Holocaust deniers we see today. Rather, any Postmodernists who really believe their truth relativism and Foucault’s view of truth should be saying that “all truth is made by power,” no objective truths exist, and our “truths” are invented and not determined by some objective reality – not even the Holocaust. But then the Postmodernist would face these questions: (1) Is the proposition that “the Holocaust happened” just a truth made by power? If “yes,” what power system “made” it and why? (2) If you think it is not an objective truth that “the Holocaust happened,” then explain why we have overwhelming evidence that it did. (3) if you accept the overwhelming evidence that the Holocaust happened, then explain why you would persist in denying the reality of objective truth. It does not matter what choice the Postmodernist takes, every path they could take here leads to exactly the same end: an intellectually and morally broken and bankrupt world-view.
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Postmodernism — self-refuting nonsense
Either (1) the Holocaust happened as a real, objective event in the past or (2) it did not as an objective fact, and any left-wing person who denies objective truth has got no business opposing, criticising and condemning the disgusting, shameful and ignorant fringe of Holocaust deniers we see today.
Rather, any Postmodernists who really believe their truth relativism and Foucault’s view of truth should be saying that “all truth is made by power,” no objective truths exist, and our “truths” are invented and not determined by some objective reality – not even the Holocaust.
But then the Postmodernist would face these questions:
(1) Is the proposition that “the Holocaust happened” just a truth made by power? If “yes,” what power system “made” it and why?
(2) If you think it is not an objective truth that “the Holocaust happened,” then explain why we have overwhelming evidence that it did.
(3) if you accept the overwhelming evidence that the Holocaust happened, then explain why you would persist in denying the reality of objective truth.
It does not matter what choice the Postmodernist takes, every path they could take here leads to exactly the same end: an intellectually and morally broken and bankrupt world-view.
