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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James Lindsay
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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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For Racial Healing, Reject Critical Race Theory
Critical Race Theory proceeds upon a number of core tenets, the first and most central of which is that racism is the ordinary state of affairs in our society.
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Why Schools Are Teaching Our Kids “Social Justice”
When it comes to our children's schools, many of us will conclude that it's necessary and important in our modern, progressive world for our children to learn about these sorts of issues.
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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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No, Science Isn’t a “Social Construct”
When Woke people (critical constructivists) say that science is a social construct, what they mean by that is "science is a political construct."
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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 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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Two and Two Make Four
We have to talk about 2+2. Unfortunately. Most unfortunately. This is because what looks like a simple and profoundly stupid Twitter fight must be understood in the full context in which it is playing out.
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How Your Organization Can Resist Woke Social Pressure
If you own a business or run an organization, there’s a fairly good chance that you might be concerned about how you can resist the social pressure of the “Woke” mob, should it come yelling (or tweeting).
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The Woke Cult: James Lindsay on the Babylon Bee
James Lindsay joins Kyle and Ethan on The Babylon Bee podcast for a second time to discuss all things Social Justice, including its forays into the Christian faith.
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“James Lindsay – Saving the World” on the Woman By Definition podcast
James Lindsay joins the ever-controversial Kellie-Jay Keen on the Woman by Definition podcast to get real about Woke ideology and Critical Social Justice Theory.
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No, the Woke Won’t Debate You. Here’s Why.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked why it is that the Woke won’t seem to have a debate or discussion about their views.
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The Complex Relationship between Marxism and Wokeness
People who observe that Marxism is somehow tied into all of this Woke stuff, then, are certainly not wrong, but it just as certainly isn’t Marxism.
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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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Saying No to Critical Race Theory
I want to explain Critical Race Theory to you. I just want to help you understand it, so I sat down with my microphone and no real plan except to talk through the claims, history, and thought of Critical Race Theory, highlighting where it came from and why it's a terrible way to think about race and racism, in its own ideas.
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Can White People Understand “Racism”?
The Woke use a very particular, very narrow definition of “racism” that has a very expansive application because it is believed to be “systemic” and thus applicable to and a part of everything.
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