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.
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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 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.
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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.
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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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No, Science Isn’t a “Social Construct”
When Woke people (critical constructivists) say that science is a social construct, what they mean by that is "science is a political construct."
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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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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).
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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
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No, the Woke Won’t Debate You. Here’s Why.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked why it is that the Woke won’t seem to have a debate or discussion about their views.
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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.
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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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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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