White Fragility Training and Freedom of Belief
I don’t believe what you believe, and I don’t have to. I defend your right to hold, express and live by your own belief system, but you have no right to impose any of it on me.
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Helen Pluckrose
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Helen Pluckrose is an exile from the humanities with research interests in late medieval/early modern religious writing by and about women. She is editor-in-chief of Areo. Helen took part in the "grievance studies" probe and her upcoming book with James Lindsay, Cynical Theories, looks at the evolution of postmodern thought in scholarship and activism.
How to Be Not-Racist
We are now offering this essay as a guide to explain to readers how they can, in fact, be not-racist, which we also argue they should want to be and should be expected to be.
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How to Talk to Your Employers About Anti-Racism
The 1960s ended, in fact, some half a century ago. Nonetheless, they all share a concern that their employer, university, or children’s school seems to think otherwise and is therefore requiring an affirmation to a very specific understanding of “racism” and “anti-racism”.
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A Beginner’s Curriculum on Critical Race Theory
There is currently a tremendous need to understand a previously obscure branch of academic thought called Critical Race Theory.
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The Flaws in White Fragility Theory: A Primer
As social unrest spreads throughout America after the death of George Floyd, Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility has recently made its way back on the bestseller lists. What is the theory of white fragility?
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How French “Intellectuals” Ruined the West: Postmodernism & Its Impact
Postmodernism presents a threat not only to liberal democracy but to modernity itself.
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A Short Letter to a Misunderstanding Right
I find it very odd when people keep telling me that “the left” is doing something bad with regard to wokeness and applied postmodernism when so many of the people opposing identity politics, cancel culture, collective blame, language policing, deplatforming, and censorship by the Critical Social Justice faction are, in fact, on the left.
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The Marketplace of Ideas and the Battle of Discourses
We are currently caught up in a battle of discourses. Mostly, this battle rages between Critical Social Justice activists and right-wing populists, with the rest of us stuck somewhere in the middle and having to pick sides.
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Freedom of Speech and the Fallacy of Demanding to be Heard
To insist that defenders of freedom of speech must listen to you is to misunderstand the concepts of freedom and the marketplace of ideas.
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Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship
Something has gone wrong in the university—especially in certain fields within the humanities. Scholarship based less upon finding truth and more upon attending to social grievances has become firmly established.
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Identity Politics Does Not Continue the Work of the Civil Rights Movements
It is nearly beyond dispute that the Civil Rights Movement, second-wave liberal feminism, and Gay Pride were liberal projects, both in the broad philosophical sense and in the narrower meaning that arises within contemporary politics.
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A Principled Defense of the University
Despite some broken fields, the university is one of humanity's crowning achievements and it must not fall to the reactionary right.
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A Manifesto Against the Enemies of Modernity
Supporters of Modernity, whatever their political orientation, should unite against the anti-modernists.
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Teaching to Transgress: Rage and Entitlement at Evergreen College
What happened just under two years ago at Evergreen State College needs to be seen to be believed. It also needs to be made sense of because, without an understanding…
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The Influence of Anti-Racist Scholarship-Activism on Evergreen College
This belief system worked its way into Evergreen State College and destroyed all that it once stood for.
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