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James Lindsay

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An American-born author, mathematician, and professional troublemaker, Dr. James Lindsay has written six books spanning a range of subjects including religion, the philosophy of science and postmodern theory. He is a leading expert on Critical Race Theory, which leads him to reject it completely. He is the founder of New Discourses and currently promoting his new book "Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity―and Why This Harms Everybody," which is currently being translated into more than fifteen languages.

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Why Your Organization Should Not Do Diversity Training

Why Your Organization Should Not Do Diversity Training

It is irresponsible to the point of negligence for an organization or institution to adopt an environment that uses "diversity" training rooted in Critical Social Justice Theories like Critical Race Theory.

There's No Such Thing As "Systematic Racism"

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There’s No Such Thing As “Systematic Racism”

“Systemic racism,” as a concept, takes us directly away from clarity and any possibility of a solution.

How to Be Not-Racist

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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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Critical Race Theory’s Jewish Problem

Critical Race Theory has a Jewish problem, and, finally, people are beginning to notice.

For Racial Healing, Reject Critical Race Theory

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For Racial Healing, Reject Critical Race Theory

Critical Race Theory proceeds upon a number of core tenets, the first and most central of which is that racism is the ordinary state of affairs in our society.

Why Schools Are Teaching Our Kids "Social Justice"

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Why Schools Are Teaching Our Kids “Social Justice”

When it comes to our children's schools, many of us will conclude that it's necessary and important in our modern, progressive world for our children to learn about these sorts of issues.

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A First-Amendment Case for Freedom from the Woke Religion

The question of whether or not the worldview and practice—for practice it intentionally is—going variously by the names “Social Justice,” “Critical Social Justice,” or, more colloquially, “Woke” constitutes a religion is one of some general interest that seems to be growing.

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The Woke Creation Myth

The genesis of injustice.

How Your Organization Can Resist Woke Social Pressure

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How Your Organization Can Resist Woke Social Pressure

If you own a business or run an organization, there’s a fairly good chance that you might be concerned about how you can resist the social pressure of the “Woke” mob, should it come yelling (or tweeting).

2+2 Never Equals 5

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2+2 Never Equals 5

“Freedom is the freedom to say that 2+2=4. If that is granted, all else follows” -George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-four

The Complex Relationship between Marxism and Wokeness

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The Complex Relationship between Marxism and Wokeness

People who observe that Marxism is somehow tied into all of this Woke stuff, then, are certainly not wrong, but it just as certainly isn’t Marxism.

How to Talk to Your Employers About Anti-Racism

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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”.

Saying No to Critical Race Theory

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Saying No to Critical Race Theory

I want to explain Critical Race Theory to you. I just want to help you understand it, so I sat down with my microphone and no real plan except to talk through the claims, history, and thought of Critical Race Theory, highlighting where it came from and why it's a terrible way to think about race and racism, in its own ideas.

The Woke Breaking Point Die Woke Belastungsgrenze

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Die Woke Belastungsgrenze

Fast jeder hat einen Woke Belastungsgrenze. Ein Punkt von Peak Woke. Oder zumindest sollten sie es tun.

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The Diversity Delusion

We're being lied to, and it's been costing us a fortune, both economically and socially.

Wokeness and Its Not-at-all-racist Doctrines of Disempowerment

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Wokeness and Its Not-at-all-racist Doctrines of Disempowerment

This isn't empowerment. It's disempowerment, even if we discount the other costs of such a not-at-all-racist doctrine.

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