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==Critique== | ==Critique== | ||
The new left has adopted extreme social constructionist views that gender, race, beauty, class, hierarchy, disability, even the scientific method, are only or predominantly ''socially constructed'' rather than [[biological essentialism|biological]] or objectively true. | The new left has adopted extreme social constructionist views that gender, race, [[beauty]], class, hierarchy, disability, even the scientific method, are only or predominantly ''socially constructed'' rather than [[biological essentialism|biological]] or objectively true. | ||
The new left has also adopted the [[politically correctness|politically correct]], [[Lockianism|Lockianist]] and factually wrong belief that humans are for the most part ''blank slates'' and ''infinitely malleable''. A famous critic of ''blank slatery'' is [[Steven Pinker]]. | The new left has also adopted the [[politically correctness|politically correct]], [[Lockianism|Lockianist]] and factually wrong belief that humans are for the most part ''blank slates'' and ''infinitely malleable''. A famous critic of ''blank slatery'' is [[Steven Pinker]]. | ||