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.
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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.
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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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.
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Can White People Understand “Racism”?
The Woke use a very particular, very narrow definition of “racism” that has a very expansive application because it is believed to be “systemic” and thus applicable to and a part of everything.
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Why Nobody is Systemically Racist
Given the events of the past few months, it has probably been explained to you at least once that all people who are “white” and “white-adjacent” are allegedly complicit in “systemic racism.”
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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.
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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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The Woke Breaking Point
Almost everybody has a Woke Breaking Point. A point of Peak Woke. Or, at least, they should.
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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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Postmodern Religion and the Faith of Social Justice
Increasingly, we are seeing insistences that Social Justice has become a new religion.
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White Silence is NOT Violence
Here’s a pretty simple truth that keeps getting harder to believe: you don’t have to be an activist—not for a cause, not for a party, not for anything.
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A Principled Statement of Opposition to Critical Race Theory: An Excerpt from ‘Cynical Theories’
Last year, Helen Pluckrose and I dedicated most of our time to writing a book about how “activist scholarship” has risen to prominence and created societal conditions that threaten to rip our societies apart.
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Sharing Size: Nine Reasons Critical Race Theory Is Terrible for Dealing with Racism
As unlikely as it seems, a highly obscure academic theory known as Critical Race Theory has completely mainstreamed in society, and now everyone is discussing it.
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Eight Big Reasons Critical Race Theory Is Terrible for Dealing with Racism
As unlikely as it seems, a highly obscure academic theory known as Critical Race Theory has completely mainstreamed in society, and now everyone is discussing it.
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A Template for Resisting White Fragility in the Workplace
As you will see, a very common problem is that people think Critical Race Theory is one thing when it is really another, and good-intentioned people tend to adopt it without realizing what it is (and reject it when they do know what it is).
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The Cult Dynamics of Wokeness
Before I got involved in studying Critical Social Justice like I do now, I mostly studied the psychology of religion.
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The Problem with White Fragility
In 2018, the “whiteness educator” Robin DiAngelo published a bestselling book called White Fragility. This book is intended to teach white people about their own racism.
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Staying Sane in an Age of Narratives
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay discusses living in today's Age of Narratives, of which Critical Social Justice is just one important and ugly part.
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Do Better than Critical Race Theory
Many of you have noticed that more people than ever are presenting the stock Critical Race Theory ideas.
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