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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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.
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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What About Sociology?
Sociology is a complicated topic. As we said when we went public with the Grievance Studies Affair, and as we have come to understand even better since, it's best to think of grievance studies as a kind of infection.
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Liberalism and its Anti-liberal Moral Order
I feel I haven't done an adequate job explaining to people that what the Critical Social Justice scholars and activists have been building isn't a new intellectual order, it's a new alternative moral order.
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Health Equity, Babies, & Bathwater
I am also motivated to rationally improve health “equity” without throwing out the baby with all this critical bathwater.
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Deepfake Methodology and the Limits of Critical Theories
My purposes here are to highlight this concept of “deepfake methodology” and contextualize in terms of what I have been learning about these lazy critical methods.
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How the Woke Virus Infects Academia and our Covid-19 Response
Critical Social Justice operates like a virus.
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Why Professors Fear to Livestream Critical Social Justice Classes
James lindsay takes a few minutes to dig deeply into the mindset of Critical Social Justice to explain exactly why its proponents are so reluctant to be seen applying their work in administrative and educational spheres.
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Coronavirus Life: Will Things Be the Same Again?
“Life will never be the same again.” We hear this over and over again with regard to the impact that the Covid-19 pandemic is having on us, even though we’re only weeks into the pandemic.
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Critical Theories: A Virus on a Liberal Body Politic
For this “virus,” we need a liberal immune response (critical thinking) that minimizes its influence while keeping the liberal body politic intact and healthy.
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James Lindsay Discovers Decolonizing Graphic Design
In February, I discovered an article on Twitter about “decolonizing graphic design,” published in the summer of last year. These sorts of articles are incredibly useful for showing exactly what’s going on in the Critical Social Justice mindset once you know how to read them, and this one doesn’t disappoint.
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