Margin, Margins is a common metaphor in modern scripture used to thematize what is overly denied or devalued. The metaphor of marginality and periphery has become a central trope of deconstructivist and postmodernist writings.
Inevitably, in one discourse, some topics occupy a central place, while others are more insignificant or even irrelevant.
It is important to explore what and even more significantly who is marginalized in a text or writing tradition, as marginalization both reflects and maintains relevant relationships in a culture or institution.
Related: Ideology
Therefore, deconstructivists proclaim “reading the marginal”, paying attention to apparently insignificant connections or random associations, in order to show how texts function as tools of repression.
Yet, by claiming the rights of the “marginalized” texts to be read, deconstructivists and postmodernists, by definition, are refusing the rights of the so-called “non-marginalized” to be read as well. That is why we are witnessing the rise of the “cancel-culture” which is, in its core non-inclusive, deeply racist, and repressing.
Under the flag of “inclusivity” numerous authors, scholars, comedians, actors, artists and politicians were denied the positions that they had. That is, of course, non-inclusive in its heart, but it is done with the sole purpose of making way for the new authors, comedians, actors, artists, politician. Those who were not competent enough to reach the wanted positions on merit, so they needed force.
