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Kalidurga

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13. totally disagree

Reply to arely staircase (Original post)

Sun Mar 31, 2013, 02:02 AM

Mar 2013

there is no such thing as a legitimate structural identity. Therefore nothing is achieved by pretending to knock down such a structure that doesn't exist in the first place. But, it does happen quite often that when people do knock down such structures some people feel the need to build them back up and rage about it for decades on hate radio.

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the relationship between the delegitimization of structural identity [View all] arely staircase Mar 2013 OP

Can you restate that in English? OffWithTheirHeads Mar 2013 #1

I feel this post is othering me kenny blankenship Mar 2013 #2

did you? arely staircase Mar 2013 #4

WTF? No WTF? option? n/t eridani Mar 2013 #3

i never use wtf. why? arely staircase Mar 2013 #10

Deep eridani Mar 2013 #12

+1 BainsBane Mar 2013 #18

other Kali Mar 2013 #5

That was rather a Random Thought tkmorris Mar 2013 #6

Both!!! We don't *do* innocuousness at DU, but we should! freshwest Mar 2013 #7

innocuousness is like arely staircase Mar 2013 #11

To posit such an ontological dichotomy as a phenomenological "real" may advance petronius Mar 2013 #8

perhaps it is reductionist arely staircase Mar 2013 #9

totally disagree Kalidurga Mar 2013 #13

a straw identity! arely staircase Mar 2013 #14

awesome Kalidurga Mar 2013 #17

and you seem to have been one of the few to "get" the whole thing arely staircase Mar 2013 #34

"...there is no such thing as a legitimate structural identity..." sibelian Mar 2013 #21

No more falsifiable than claim there are no pink unicorns... Kalidurga Mar 2013 #23

But the credibility of that analogous claim sibelian Mar 2013 #24

Actually, there is - BUT it's impossible for anyone jazzimov Mar 2013 #22

Outing OPs--Textual objectivism and subcultural narrative eridani Mar 2013 #15

like i tell my kids everyday arely staircase Mar 2013 #16

Did the philosophy group Le Taz Hot Mar 2013 #19

Yes. UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2013 #29

Disagree. They are exact opposites. jazzimov Mar 2013 #20

word salad. lofty word salad, but still word salad. Orwell would have cali Mar 2013 #25

it isn't condescending arely staircase Mar 2013 #26

what does Orwell know? Uh, as anyone who's actually read his essays and novels cali Mar 2013 #30

this just gets better and better arely staircase Mar 2013 #32

I would say "doubtful virtue of vacuousness", but otherwise, yeah. nt bemildred Mar 2013 #27

these words don't mean anything datasuspect Mar 2013 #28

yes, yes and no eom arely staircase Mar 2013 #33

The fragmentation of realism is nearly obtuse in its morphology. UnrepentantLiberal Mar 2013 #31