White Fragility Training and Freedom of Belief
I don’t believe what you believe, and I don’t have to. I defend your right to hold, express and live by your own belief system, but you have no right to impose any of it on me.
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helen pluckrose
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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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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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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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James Lindsay and Joe Rogan Discuss Critical Social Justice
In a highly anticipated event, James Lindsay joins Joe Rogan on 'The Joe Rogan Experience' to discuss the recent explosion of the Woke ideology into almost every corner of our society and culture.
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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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Helen Pluckrose: The Evolution of Postmodern Thought
Helen Pluckrose develops the definition of "Social Justice" as it is used in the academic literature in this tradition, explains its connections to identity politics and the political correctness movement, and then shows the relevance of the original postmodernists to this Theory in some detail.
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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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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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What’s Passed Since the “Conceptual Penis”?
James Lindsay joins High Society Radio to discuss what has transpired in all the time since he and Peter Boghossian published their first (mostly unsuccessful) attempt at a hoax paper on gender studies: “The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct,” in early summer 2017.
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How Theory Got Cynical and Why That Sucks for Everyone
James Lindsay joins Jack Murphy on the Jack Murphy Live podcast to discuss his forthcoming book with Helen Pluckrose, Cynical Theories.
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What The ‘Grievance Studies Affair’ Says About Academia’s Social Justice Warriors
Today’s social justice warriors in academic fields such as gender studies share unfortunate commonalities with Adolf Hitler's 'struggle.'
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Postmodernism Versus Critical Social Justice
James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose join old-school postmodernist and libertarian thinker Thaddeus Russell on the Unregistered podcast.
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How French “Intellectuals” Ruined the West: Postmodernism & Its Impact
Postmodernism presents a threat not only to liberal democracy but to modernity itself.
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The Roots of “Woke” Culture
Woke culture continues to become ever-more relevant to people in all walks of life, and this led to a recent BBC audio-documentary featuring feminist authort Helen Lewis and produced by Craig Templeton Smith, “The Roots of ‘Woke’ Culture.”
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A Short Letter to a Misunderstanding Right
I find it very odd when people keep telling me that “the left” is doing something bad with regard to wokeness and applied postmodernism when so many of the people opposing identity politics, cancel culture, collective blame, language policing, deplatforming, and censorship by the Critical Social Justice faction are, in fact, on the left.
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The Marketplace of Ideas and the Battle of Discourses
We are currently caught up in a battle of discourses. Mostly, this battle rages between Critical Social Justice activists and right-wing populists, with the rest of us stuck somewhere in the middle and having to pick sides.
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Freedom of Speech and the Fallacy of Demanding to be Heard
To insist that defenders of freedom of speech must listen to you is to misunderstand the concepts of freedom and the marketplace of ideas.
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Academic Grievance Studies and the Corruption of Scholarship
Something has gone wrong in the university—especially in certain fields within the humanities. Scholarship based less upon finding truth and more upon attending to social grievances has become firmly established.
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A Principled Defense of the University
Despite some broken fields, the university is one of humanity's crowning achievements and it must not fall to the reactionary right.
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