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I would highly recommend the "Cynical Theories" book for some background on the academic disciplines and "scholars" this stuff is coming from. I feel like the book is in fact too kind, but it is a good background (and it makes a case for liberal/universalist social justice, which is what I thought social justice was about).

Being an unapologetic modernist and an enlightenment, for the lack of better word, fundamentalist, what struck me the most is how, whereas I used to think that "math and science are white imperialism" people are freak edge cases, they in fact represent the core beliefs of the movement and its philosophical roots. The conclusion that I drew (not in the book as such) is that the whole "studies" edifice has no more claim to truth and morality than Old Testament theology, or taking some other random philosophical notion like Letzter Mensch and running with it to characterize society.