en I refer to an -ism, it is my usual experience
    that the intellectual I am communicating with has
    a store of knowledge about them.  If you don't,
    then we will find it hard to communicate.

I have rather a large store of experiences talking with people who go on
about &quot;ism too&quot; and &quot;ism not&quot; as a substitute for thinking about what is,
and instead of thinking critically to examine whether the unreflectively
adopted coordinate systems and presumptive frames of reference that th