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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Ending Cancel Culture Is Up To You
The success of cancel culture means the destruction of liberalism, the foundation of every successful progressive movement since the Enlightenment.
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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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An Open Letter to Robin DiAngelo about “Anti-racism”
You proudly proclaim your racism in your writings, as so often racists do. We have read your work and can see the racism dripping from every page.
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Iconoclasm as a Prelude to Woke Horrors?
The nature of book-burnings and iconoclasm lends itself to ideology.
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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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5 Reasons the Book “White Fragility” is Shallow and Destructive
Among the books making the rounds on recent “must-read” book lists is White Fragility, by Robin DiAngelo.
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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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The Intellectual Fraud of Robin DiAngelo’s “White Fragility”
Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility Is Snake Oil Masquerading As Insight
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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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They Can’t Cancel All of Us: How We Fought the Woke Thought Police and Won
This is the story of how Social Justice Activists turned the [Canadian] Law Society into the thought police.
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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 Flaws in White Fragility Theory: A Primer
As social unrest spreads throughout America after the death of George Floyd, Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility has recently made its way back on the bestseller lists. What is the theory of white fragility?
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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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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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