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[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Derrida has nothing to do with that shit

[–]AFutureConcern 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm afraid Derrida's influence permeates a lot of "that shit" including queer theory, postcolonial theory, feminism and many other "critical" fields.

https://newdiscourses.com/tftw-derridean/

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The Nazi's used Nietzsche to justify their shit but I don't think he had anything to do with them.

They are wrong. Derrida has nothing to do with those fields and has been used to justify shit he would never have. Please actually read him before slandering his name.

For example proponents of "identity politics" often use the writings of Foucault to justify their ideas but they are deluded. In fact they are often doing the exact opposite of what Foucault wants.

"Well, if identity is only a game, if it is only a procedure to have relations, social and sexual-pleasure relationships that create new friendships, it is useful. But if identity becomes the problem of sexual existence, and if people think that they have to ‘uncover’ their ‘own identity,’ and that their own identity has to become the law, the principle, the code of their existence; if the perennial question they ask is ‘Does this thing conform to my identity?’ then, I think, they will turn back to a kind of ethics very close to the old heterosexual virility. If we are asked to relate to the question of identity, it must be an identity to our unique selves. But the relationships we have to have with ourselves are not ones of identity, rather, they must be relationships of differentiation, of creation, of innovation. To be the same is really boring. We must not exclude identity if people find their pleasure through this identity, but we must not think of this identity as an ethical universal rule."