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My mental model of Eliezer Yudkowsky is that he thinks all postmodernism is nonsense - as others have noted. If he intended to say something equivalent to "Postmodernist got this point right" then what he wrote is not how I expect he would say it. Further, the attack that I am reading into his words is a standard understanding of postmodernism in this community.
But the community seems to agree with you more than I - so I'm adjusting slightly in favor of me misreading Eliezer's intent.
I certainly read it as "postmodernists notice that the word true is used as mere emphasis <and so they are really angry when someone talks about 'truth', hence relativism>".
Your interpretation doesn't exactly align with the essence of postmodernism (as I see it, I'm no expert).