• TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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    5 days ago

    I'm not saying to disregard the author's intent, I'm saying that there are ways to come to interpretations that don't align with what the author has explicitly said. Most people nowadays will read the author's statements and be done with it, and that's why I think it's surface level and frankly a bit worthless criticism, refusing to engage critically with the text beyond what's being spelled out directly.