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==Critique== | ==Critique== | ||
The new left has heavily adopted extreme social constructionist views that gender, race, beauty, class, and disability are only or predominantly ''socially constructed'' rather than [[biological essentialism|biological]], and a [[politically correctness|politically correct]] and [[Lockianism|Lockianist]] belief that humans are for the most part ''blank slates'' and ''infinitely malleable''. | |||
Critics such as [[Jordan Peterson]] and other [[tradcon|tradcons]] accuse these "postmodern social constructionists", who they see philosophically rooted in [[Marxism]], of a [[Marxism|resentful]] pessimism that aforementioned perceived "social constructions" would be the roots of most evil, invented by powerful [[men|evil people]] as a means of oppression. Such quasi-Marxist beliefs are thought to be driven by a tremendous moral superiority and a naive expectation that by e.g. breaking down gender roles, one can achieve a more harmonious society, even utopia.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vofiOCIWnCY</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm7vmHwfCdg</ref> | Critics of the left, such as [[Jordan Peterson]] and other [[tradcon|tradcons]], accuse these "postmodern social constructionists", who they see philosophically rooted in [[Marxism]], of a [[Marxism|resentful]] pessimism that aforementioned perceived "social constructions" would be the roots of most evil, invented by powerful [[men|evil people]] as a means of oppression. | ||
Such quasi-Marxist beliefs are thought to be driven by a tremendous moral superiority and a naive expectation that by e.g. breaking down gender roles, one can achieve a more harmonious society, even utopia.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vofiOCIWnCY</ref><ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nm7vmHwfCdg</ref> | |||
They instead hold that culturally evolved social norms are valuable, e.g. relieving the individual from having to figure out the uncountably many ways of making mistakes. | They instead hold that culturally evolved social norms are valuable, e.g. relieving the individual from having to figure out the uncountably many ways of making mistakes. | ||
Another famous critic of blank slatery is [[Steven Pinker]]. | Another famous critic of blank slatery is [[Steven Pinker]]. | ||