James Lindsay Goes to Oxford
Imagine my surprise. Late last summer, I got an email from the Oxford Union formally inviting me to debate the proposition “This House Believes Woke Culture Has Gone Too Far.”
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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.
OnlySubs: Does Media Matters Want Drag Floyd?
Media Matters, ever vigilant, was so triggered that they published an article about me on the subject before we even finished the show and left the stage! Why would they do that? Are they telling us they do want a Drag Floyd event and that I've exposed their schemes? Since the Iron Law of Woke Projection never misses, we can assume it's probably so.
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OnlySubs: A Meditation on Being Joyful Warriors
If you don't know that the moms in Moms for Liberty refer to themselves as "joyful warriors," I want to bring that to your attention.
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OnlySubs: A Logic of Positive and Negative Competition
Competition has two forms: positive and negative. In positive competition, competitors try to improve themselves to win. In negative competition, they try to cut down their opponents instead of bettering themselves.
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OnlySubs: Social and Parasocial Relationships
In the world of social media, we've had a huge expansion of our parasocial space without much expansion of our truly social space.
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OnlySubs: Reciprocal Submission and the Impossibility of Socialism
Socialism doesn't work. One key reason why is because it requires the voluntary mutual submission of every individual in society to every other individual in society.
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OnlySubs: Stop Wanting Fake Friends
One of the main ways we got into this Woke Marxist mess in the first place is that people started to care way too much about what their fake friends think of them.
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How to Kill a Science: The Process of Dialectical Inversion
One of the “key goals” of the Woke Marxist movement is to "decenter the natural sciences." How on Earth is someone supposed to “decenter” the natural sciences—and from what, and why?
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CRT, Queer Theory, and Marxism by Any Other Name
As a theory of “political economy,” Marxism isn’t at all complicated. At the very bottom, it is the belief that human beings are fundamentally social beings whose true nature shapes and is shaped by their societies.
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The Riddle of History, Solved
According to Karl Marx, Communism, true and proper, is the self-conscious solution to “the riddle of history.”
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OnlySubs: Rejoice in the Day the Lord Has Made
Psalm 118:24 reads "This is the day the Lord has made; rejoice and be glad in it." This is one of the most famous psalms in the Bible, and virtually everyone has heard it.
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OnlySubs: The Defining Ignorance of the Left
If we boil it down to brass tacks, there's one key defining characteristic that places people on the Left, and that's the desire to do away with all hierarchy.
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The Many Faces of Marxism
There’s a great and frustrating irony about Marxism. On the one hand, it is extremely simple—almost cartoonishly so. On the other hand, millions of pages of extremely complicated writing exist trying to make it true.
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OnlySubs: ESG Is for Everyone!
ESG is a scam. The Environmental, Social, and Governance standards set by some of the most corrupt and powerful institutions on this planet allow them to run the entire professional world like a cartel, especially its corporate sector. As a result, ESG is for everyone!
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OnlySubs: Does Academia Have Ideological Rabies?
In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I make the case that Woke Marxism works like ideological rabies, and academia is probably badly infected.
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OnlySubs: They’re Not Idiots
I hear people say "Idiots!" all the time when discussing the actions of the ruling class. That's a mistake. They're not idiots.
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The Theft of American Education
The learning loss that follows from a “critical” education into "social and emotional learning" represents nothing short of an intentional theft of education from our children and our society.
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Three Terms Communists Redefined to Subvert Society
Currently, there are just three terms that have been profoundly subverted and are being used to transform our society by Communists for Communist ends.
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OnlySubs: The Sinking of the USS Twitter
If we think about what's taking place in the world today as a new form of warfare, and we think about the various instruments of that warfare in analogy to, say, naval vessels, we might come to think of a social media platform like Twitter as a kind of powerful battleship for the Enemy forces of today, the USS Twitter.
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OnlySubs: Making Oppression Invisible
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I explore the activist dimension of all brands of Marxism in terms of how they hide their evil and thus make oppression invisible.
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