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Reflecting on Skokie and the Necessity of Distasteful Speech

In 1977 the United States Supreme Court delivered a landmark decision in favour of the National Socialist Party of America (NSPA). The Village of Skokie sued the NSPA to prevent the neo-Nazi organization from holding a rally.

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There's No Such Thing As "Systematic Racism"

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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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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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Biden Is Not The Room

James Lindsay recently said on Twitter that he will vote "unhappily" for Republicans including Trump in these troubled times after seeing an argument that the left should work to abolish the Constitution.

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On Anti-Racism and American Identity

We stare at the abyss of an even more polarized cultural climate, continuing political stagnation, and one of the most tumultuous election cycles in American history, and many are left wondering what in the world just happened.

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To Boldly Go: Critical Animal Studies, the Final Frontier

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To Boldly Go: Critical Animal Studies, the Final Frontier

Compitus may seem fringe, but she is working from the assumptions, and toward the aspirations, of a distinct critical social theory of relatively recent vintage (predictably) known as Critical Animal Studies (CAS).

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The Poverty of “Lived Experiences”

This rhetoric is, by design, meant to paint political dissidents as myopic stooges who are unwilling to “listen to the Lived Experiences of marginalized people,” thus making them unwittingly complicit in systems of oppression.

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The Great Silencing of America and the Hallmarks of Woke Totalitarianism

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The Great Silencing of America and the Hallmarks of Woke Totalitarianism

America's own history always moved in favor of including everyone under its umbrella, starting with the emancipation of the black slaves, and continuing with the achievement of women's suffrage, and eventually, universal suffrage. Totalitarian movements, in contrast, once it becomes possible, will always move in the opposite direction.

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Understanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We live in an era of unprecedented pressure for ideologically based organizational trainings: anti-racist, racial sensitivity, unconscious bias, cultural awareness, and, perhaps most commonly, some combination of "diversity, equity, and inclusion."

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GamerGate's 6th Anniversary – How Gamers Were the First to Stand Up Against Grievance Social Justice

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GamerGate’s 6th Anniversary – How Gamers Were the First to Stand Up Against Grievance Social Justice

GamerGate is the canary in the Woke coal mine that you’ve probably never looked closely at, but once you do, you see that it represents the victory of the honest person in the comments section winning over the dishonest journalist writing the article.

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Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise that Everything is About Race

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Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise that Everything is About Race

Me and White Supremacy: How to Recognise Your Privilege, Combat Racism and Change the World by Layla F. Saad is just the thing to carry round if you want to signal that you are not just talking the intersectional talk, but doing the work (and in these post-Black Lives Matter times, that’s what we’re supposed to do, right?).

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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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The Woke Creation Myth

The genesis of injustice.

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History Killers: Illinois Rep. Calls for End to History Education

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History Killers: Illinois Rep. Calls for End to History Education

Illinois State Representative, LaShawn K. Ford, held a press conference in Evanston to call for the suspension of history classes in Illinois public schools.

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How Critical Social Justice Theory Cuts the Heart out of Therapy

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How Critical Social Justice Theory Cuts the Heart out of Therapy

A healing ethos is the heart of therapy: it is characterised by an unwavering commitment to the flourishing of the person who is seeking your help.

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The Church of Social Justice

From fat studies to academics, the world appears to have been taken over by identity politics. The result is the creation of a seemingly enormous congregation of members in the church of social justice.

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“Anti-Racism” vs. Liberalism

There’s a difference between “anti-racism” and actually overcoming racism. Overcoming racism requires liberalism, and “anti-racism,” as it is currently being taught, can only increase it. This is most obvious when…

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