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OnlySubs: The Three Tactics of Wokeness

Join me on this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, as I outline these three tactics, where they come from, how they work, and what you might be able to do about them.

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Forging the Woke One Ring: Kimberlé Crenshaw's "Mapping the Margins"

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Forging the Woke One Ring: Kimberlé Crenshaw’s “Mapping the Margins”

In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay reads through the introduction to "Mapping the Margins" and offers his commentary on the paper and its role as the birthplace (though not gestation) of the Woke movement and, as he and Helen Pluckrose named it in Cynical Theories, applied postmodernism.

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OnlySubs: Is Wokeness French or American?

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OnlySubs: Is Wokeness French or American?

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I try to go into the complicated relationship between French, American, and German ideas (and some British and Australian ones) as they have come together to form Wokeness, dipping even into Marx's reliance upon Rousseau, who the French certainly can't deny.

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OnlySubs: Woke Social Snake Oil

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I walk through the idea of snake oil and illustrate how Wokeness is, in fact, a social snake oil that manufactures a disease (systemic oppression) so that it can sell us a "cure" that only makes us sicker (Critical Theory).

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Aufheben der Dr. Seuss

Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast to dig into the Critical Dr. Seuss academic literature to see where this Aufheben der Dr Seuss comes from and how it works.

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OnlySubs: Wokeness and the Dark Side of Competition

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OnlySubs: Wokeness and the Dark Side of Competition

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I explain how Wokeness is designed to rationalize and justify a certain particularly unfortunate type of negative competition.

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OnlySubs: Liberalism is an Unstable Societal Equilibrium

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, I discuss the idea of classical or philosophical liberalism through that framing (after introducing the basic physics of stable and unstable equilibria).

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OnlySubs: Avoiding the Woke Swamp

In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I try to use the analogy of swamps and gators (or crocodiles, if you prefer) to describe part of the rhetorical jungle we live in today and give some suggestions for what you can do to stay out of the water.

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Why the Wokish Can't See Woke Harms | OnlySubs Ep. 14

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OnlySubs: Why the Wokish Can’t See Woke Harms

In this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, I dive into the question by drawing upon psychological insights relevant to identity and the so-called "Backfire Effect" to provide an explanation and, hopefully, some useful recommendations for helping the Wokish people in your life learn to see the Woke problem for what it is.

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NO! Critical Race Theory Does NOT Continue the Civil Rights Movement

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NO! Critical Race Theory Does NOT Continue the Civil Rights Movement

Critical Race Theorists like to claim that they have inherited and continue the noble legacy and justice work of the Civil Rights Movement, but this is an abject lie.

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How the Woke Fail the Paradox of Tolerance

In this fourth and final part of his four-part lecture series about "Repressive Tolerance," James Lindsay takes the reader from the darkest point of the essay, which was the exciting climax of Part 3, through the end of Marcuse's argument.

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OnlySubs: Blue-checked Psychopathy

Join me as I talk specifically about the verification of unlicensed medical doctors taking to Twitter with their blue checks and how their verification as such is dangerously misleading.

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Critical Theorists as Grand Inquisitors: The Logic of "Repressive Tolerance"

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Critical Theorists as Grand Inquisitors: The Logic of “Repressive Tolerance”

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OnlySubs: The Wokish Clique of Very Smart People

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OnlySubs: The Wokish Clique of Very Smart People

In this episode of OnlySubs, my subscribers-only short-form podcast, I dive into the cultural phenomenon of Very Smart People as a kind of clique of intellectuals that is vigorously gatekept.

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Repressive Tolerance: Left Good, Right Bad, What Could Go Wrong?

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Repressive Tolerance: Left Good, Right Bad, What Could Go Wrong?

In this third part of James Lindsay's lecture series on Herbert Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance," we see how the essay takes a particularly dark turn.

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OnlySubs: Call Them “Neoracists”

I want to introduce a new strategy and term to you. It's simple: call Critical Race Theorists and its activists "neoracists."

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One Pill, Two Pill, Red Pill, Blue Pill: Herbert Marcuse and the Administered Society

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One Pill, Two Pill, Red Pill, Blue Pill: Herbert Marcuse and the Administered Society

In this second part of his annotated reading of Marcuse's "Repressive Tolerance," James Lindsay reads and explains the portion of the essay where Marcuse defines the "administered society" that he claims we live in.

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Is James Lindsay Really a Trumper?! | OnlySubs Ep. 10

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OnlySubs: Is James Lindsay Really a Trumper?!

In light of his decision to vote for Donald Trump in the 2020 election, what does James Lindsay have to say about Trump now?

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How Not to Resolve the Paradox of Tolerance

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How Not to Resolve the Paradox of Tolerance

The logic of the left today is overwhelmingly rooted in a single essay published in 1965 by the neo-Marxist philosopher Herbert Marcuse.

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The Lockpick to the Gates of Western Civilization

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OnlySubs: The Lockpick to the Gates of Western Civilization

We've entered into a strange phase in history where, because of the actions of the Biden administration, we're about to see an unprecedented number of people become aware of the problem of Wokeness, which they couldn't see before, ostensibly because of Trump.

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