Woke for Dummies
James Lindsay explains the book that opened his eyes to what "Woke" really is: Ozlem Sensoy and Robin DiAngelo's Is Everyone Really Equal?
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Intersectionality
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The Basics of Cultural Marxism
Host James Lindsay offers a thorough overview of Marxism; Cultural Marxism; Critical Marxism; and Woke Marxism, connecting each to the challenges of modernity.
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“White Mein Kampf”
This is a scholarly paper titled 'Our Struggle is My Struggle: Solidarity Feminism as an Intersectional Reply to Neoliberal and Choice Feminism' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.
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Marx, the God. Marcuse, His Prophet. Mao, His Sword.
Communists are in a cult with Marx at the top, the doctrine of Marcuse in the middle, and Mao’s revolutionary strategy at the bottom.
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“Feminist Artificial Intelligence”
This is a scholarly paper titled 'Super-Frankenstein and the Masculine Imaginary: Feminist Epistemology and Superintelligent Artificial Intelligence Safety Research' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.
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“Progressive Stack”
This is a scholarly paper titled 'The Progressive Stack: An Intersectional Feminist Approach to Pedagogy' submitted as part of the Grievance Studies Project by Peter Boghossian, James Lindsay, and Helen Pluckrose.
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Class Identity and Gnostic Election
Woke Theory, which is to say Woke Gnosticism, requires identification with the class. Marxist socialists must identify with the workers as a class; feminists must identify with women as a class; antiracists must identify with people of color as a class; and so on. This is because they're Social Gnostics.
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Maoism with American Characteristics
Intersectionality is a Woke standard, but what is it? Where does it come from? The history of the concept isn't that hard to trace, and where it leads us is back to some of the worst regimes in history.
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Intersectionality Is American Maoism
It isn’t possible to discuss Intersectionality without starting with Kimberlé Crenshaw, who named it. Like with most Woke Marxist ideas, though, Intersectionality is recycled and repackaged, more than once. Crenshaw is therefore the wrong person to discuss to talk about the issue, but she’s a starting place.
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Paulo Freire’s Prophetic Vision for Education
Join James Lindsay in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, where he continues through the darker, deeper aspect of Freirean Critical Pedagogy.
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Free OnlySubs: The Southern Baptist Convention & The Subordination of Scripture
In April of 2019, the famously conservative Southern Baptist Convention adopted an infamous resolution, Resolution 9, bringing into the Convention both Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality "as an analytical tool subordinate to Scripture."
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Paulo Freire’s Politics of Education and a New Hope
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, join James as he dives into the introduction to Paulo Freire's 1985 book, The Politics of Education, in order to better understand Freire and his influence.
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The True History of Intersectionality
Intersectionality is usually credited to Kim Crenshaw, who coined the term as well as "Critical Race Theory" in 1989. It has an older history, however.
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A Brief History of Identity Marxism
The ideology that is most conveniently identified as "Wokeness" is much more accurately described by the phrase Identity Marxism.
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OnlySubs: Intersectionality’s Faceless Aesthetic
Something I am noticing more and more lately is the use of a faceless aesthetic in intersectional art, and it's starting to creep me out.
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There Is No Good Part of Hitler’s Mein Kampf
If you have ever wondered about the backstory of the creation of the "Feminist Mein Kampf" paper really was, including why its authors did it, you won't want to miss this long-form discussion and rare response to yet another underinformed critic of Lindsay, Boghossian, and Pluckrose's work.
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The End of Civil Rights in Kimberlé Crenshaw’s “Mapping the Margins”
In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay continues his abridged reading of Kimberlé Crenshaw's famous (or infamous) paper, "Mapping the Margins," which appeared in the Stanford Law Review in 1991.
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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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Intersectionality Goes to Court
The real impact of CRT on American law is most evident in the growing but little recognized influence of intersectionality.
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The Contradictions of Critical Theory and Counseling
The core of therapy is empowering individuals to make changes in their lives, which often requires a heightened level of personal responsibility.
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