ABSTRACT
This chapter explores postmodernist efforts to deconstruct and delegitimise meta-narratives in favour of mini-narratives. It surveys the rise of identity politics, as a manifestation of postmodernism. American university campuses are assessed as the experimental laboratory for liberalism and postmodernism. Postmodernism is tasked to deconstruct the 'meta-narratives' of modernism, a repudiation of positivist and cohesive elucidation for major phenomena. Postmodernism is typically hostile to Western civilisation, traditions and shared identity, and fuels radical feminism and identity politics. Liberal tolerance is paradoxical as it advocates for more openness and acceptance for diversity to the extent it promotes cultural and moral relativism, while concurrently having a narrow definition of morality. Identity politics creates new power structures by redistributing political and economic power in accordance with victimhood. The hierarchy of victimhood produces a 'victimhood Olympics', which is encapsulated in the postmodernists' reference to 'intersectionality'. The theory on intersectionality suggests that all systems of victimhood are interconnected.
