What I find more salient now is the rise of similar tendencies in the past couple years in what we usually call the left, as outlined in part in the essay "Exiting the Vampire Castle", which discusses the moralistic enforcement of language codes particularly by the educated. The elevation of testimony and subjective experience over objective analysis is another aspect, and the combination of these was ably skewered back in the day:
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One difference I see is that the newer form is far more nasty and moralistic.
Deconstruction, as I understand it, involved analyzing works for hidden meaning arising out of a larger cultural context, with bonus points for completely inverting the explicit meaning. I don't mean to dismiss any of the above approaches without qualification, but this particular technique can devolve into what people normally call "putting words in your mouth".
Call-out culture on the net is rife with tendency. Amanda Marcotte has a genius for it. Jacobinghazi was built out of it -- and Kendzior, as Doug has pointed out, studied anthropology. It showed up in recent FB posts of Doug's around racist imagery in Charlie Hebdo, the possible nadir of which was Amber Frost's tolerance of old Trotskyists calling her "hon" getting morphed into her being ok with the scenario of Doug groping her ass. Fred deBoer drives himself to distraction repeating "That's not what he said."
What do you think?
-- Andy "It's a testament to ketchup that there can be no confusion."
