Postmodernism Rears Its Ugly Head

I’m a closet philosophy geek/logic person.  One of the biggest problems with philosophy is that its personal, you believe what and the way you do personally [or at least that is what I believe ;)].   One of the bigger problems is the philosophical positions called postmodernism.  Postmodernism says that you can’t understand me.  I can’t understand you.  Postmodernism doesn’t work well in politics:

http://comment.independent.co.uk/columnists_a_l/johann_hari/article2496657.ece

This article is graphic and disturbing.   I can’t understand how a judge would let someone be immoral by the culture of the nation that these immigrants moved to.  Its not postmodernism on my part, its just sickness in the justice system.