They don't believe truth, especially absolute truth, is accessible. This misunderstands them completely. What exists is power, not least the power to decide what will be considered "true." The basis for all "truth" is power and how dominant groups abuse it and must be dismantled. https://twitter.com/wayfaringjames/status/1295204286075473925

This weird view derives from Foucault, primarily, but it was amplified by Critical Theory. Foucault thought that whether a truth claim is really true or not misses the bigger point that (dominant) power gets to make the decision about the claim's status. Interrogate the power.

Critical Theory, which believes in cultural hegemony controls the oppressed and prevents their liberation from systemic oppression, was able to make great use of Foucault's view of knowledge as power and finally divorce itself from being obliged to the truth. "Truth" is hegemony.

*that, not in.

This fusion of postmodernist views of power and truth and Critical Theory's views of hegemonic power structures forms the functional backbone of Critical Social Justice today. Liberationism is the goal: freeing any oppressed from the dominance that oppresses them.

Critical Social Justice sees all of this as did Herbert Marcuse and Frantz Fanon, both of whom argued passionately in the 1960s that violence is necessary to fight back against controlling dominant powers so that liberation can be achieved.

Thanks to their brainless appropriation of Foucault, even the ways we find truth and communicate it are now believed to be assertions of power, so truth, evidence, reason, argument, and even reality, grammar, and basic math are all oppression.

Thanks to Marcuse, the activists of today truly believe we're in a state of imminent fascism that demands violent revolt. This explains Antifa, some of Trump Derangement Syndrome, and why the police/feds can't stop the Antifa riots in our cities. Acting will be branded fascist.

Thanks to Fanon, more justification of violence. Fanon said violence is necessary to unmake the colonial context and restore dignity to the colonized. Activists have expanded the definition of colonized, following Foucault, to include everything "white" and "Western," inc science

Antifa can be thought of as the combination of Marcuse and Fanon and often recognize themselves explicitly as such. They're misinformed by Foucault's ideas about power, twisted by Critical Social Justice Theorists, and covered for by Foucauldian activist-journalists.