On July 9th, Kevin Turner had a conversation with Dr. James Lindsay discussing the social and cultural movement that has gripped the nation since the death of George Floyd in late May. An author and mathematician by training, Dr. Lindsay has written six books spanning a range of subjects including religion, the philosophy of science, and postmodern theory. Dr. Lindsay’s upcoming book is Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody, which he co-authored with Helen Pluckrose of Areo. Dr. Lindsay is also the founder of New Discourses, a media website and educational resource for those who are “politically homeless.”
Dr. Lindsay describes the recent developments taking place across society as “terrifying” and goes on to say, “This is an attempted revolution to the ways that our society operates and functions.”
He traces the origins of this social upheaval to the academy:
“Late in the 1970s is when you start to see a set of academic disciplines rising such as ethnic studies, African-American studies, women’s studies, gender studies, masculinity studies (they all have the kind of a same flavor); identity studies, queer theory, post-colonial studies, feminist media studies, and so on.”
On how subjects such as critical race theory have impacted society outside the academy, Dr. Lindsay says that the new scholarship “…has used the emergence of social media—and the current events that are happening—in order to propel itself into the mainstream.”
He goes onto explain that to some, President Donald Trump’s election and actions in office have served as proof that systems of oppression (“sexism, misogyny, homophobia transphobia, ablism”) are embedded in American society, so advocates of this view can now declare that “…society is really racist; it is really misogynist, and now it is willing to come out and say so, whereas before was just hiding it behind a nice face.”
You can find a list of Dr. Lindsay’s books here.
This article was originally published on Merion West.
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Hi, i hope peter or james see this.
Have you seen anything about how alot of the turmoil in america may have been partially manufactured by russia?
This question is asked fully prepared for a quick association to “russia gate” and an eyeroll, but it’s worth being asked here anyways.
This is a link to a wiki on a 1997 book that was assimilated into the russian military training academy.
The content section is the most relevant, especially the bit about the u.s.
The u.k. entry is also interesting because it says the goal is to cut the u.k. off from europe. This was accomplished because boris, a right wing populist, used the muslim problem (various grooming gangs, acid attacks, sharia courts being installed etc.) to rile up right wingers to snap off from the e.u.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundations_of_Geopolitics
This is an article saying that boris was possibly installed via interference
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/mar/15/uk-ministers-will-no-longer-claim-no-successful-examples-of-russian-interference
This next link is a video containing a lecture for yuri
Bezmenov. It’s a hour long, which may seem laborious but is very engaging and worth the watch.
https://youtu.be/Y9TviIuXPSE
This is his wiki for some back ground.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Bezmenov
Once you absorb these pieces of info you can move onto things like the IRA aka the internet research agency. At the very very least the ira was successful at supressing black male voter turnout for the 2016 election and im of the OPINION that the yellow vest protest was them as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency
There’s alot to this picture and i worry if i put too much it will become info overload.