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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OnlySubs: Critical Race Theory’s Dictatorship of the Antiracists
Join me on this episode of James Lindsay OnlySubs, my subscribers-only podcast, to hear how this race-Marxism works.
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On the Absence of Systemic Racism
According to Critical Race Theory, “racism is ordinary, not aberrational—‘normal science,’ the usual way society does business, the common, everyday experience of most people of color in this country.” Its advocates call this belief “systemic racism.”
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OnlySubs: Don’t Drink the Woke Kool-Aid
In this episode of my subscribers-only podcast, James Lindsay OnlySubs, I take listeners through a radio message sent from Angela Davis to Jim Jones at his compound in Guyana in 1977, a year before the gruesome end.
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Five Ugly Truths About Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory is currently getting a ton of attention on the national and international stage, which is long overdue, but there are also many misconceptions about it.
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America’s Overseers: How the Example of Harvard Discredits the Meme of Black “Marginalization”
Among the many spells the wicked witches of the woke West have cast upon us is the one that compels us to believe that blacks (and other minorities) are eternally “underrepresented” and “marginalized” in America.
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A Letter Supporting a Bill to Ban Critical Race Theory
The state of New Hampshire is trying to advance a bill in its state house of representatives (HB544) that mirrors the executive order President Trump issued "against Critical Race Theory," which is to say against the divisive (and racist/neoracist) tenets at the heart of Critical Race Theory and so-called "diversity" training sessions based upon it.
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Wokeness Threatens the Rule of Law
Here are two important ideas that currently exist in fundamental opposition to one another: “Reasonableness” and “Wokeness.”
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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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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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Defining Racism Up: Ibram X. Kendi’s Weird Definition of Anti-racism
Kendi’s central intellectual contribution has been a redefinition of “racism” and how it works.
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