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And Plato would have gotten away with it too, if not for those meddling kids and their cladistics. Essentialism has been hugely damaging and is the foundation of most types of Creationism. https://newdiscourses.com/2021/02/essentialism-logical-fallacy-plaguing-us-since-plato/
So, I gave this a cursory read.
The discussion of essentialism mostly makes sense, if a few weird red flags scattered throughout. But I was curious at what point it would be turned into, as promised in the intro, that essentialism is a fundamental flaw of "wokeism", and apparently specifically Critical Race Theory.
And uh. That connection was poorly made, in my humble opinion. It's a lot of philosophical history and bluster to then just sort of... miss the point and mischaracterize the quotes being put on the table.
My apologies, I would be more specific and pointed in my critique here, but I'm on mobile and I usually need a better setup (e.g. on PC) to lay out these thoughts with more precision.
Your link isn't working properly.
It's a cool read though - I'm still reading it, but so far it did a great job showing that concepts are fuzzy and inside our heads, not those well-defined abstractions in some external realm.