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What is political about "categorically reject"?

The funniest part about a thread like the above is that it's virtually impossible to tell if a given comment was made as a joke

Hmmm what could possibly fnordpiglet meant when he said what he said... but then again, each consecutive comment may or may not have been serious. Including this one.

poe's law to the rescue

Nathan, Edgar Allan or Cameron?

Power-over-Ethernet obviously.

Categorical rejection is an ideological overessentialization which seeks to create an other to function as a target of not only division and ridicule but to function normatively to buttress an existing predominant neoliberal self-narrative. </zizek>

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