Panel: Why We Need New Discourses
In this Panel held on October 13, 2019, all panelists came together to critique the influence of social justice ideology on academia and public discourse.
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Doing Social Justice Responsibly
Pluckrose tackles the ideological excesses within social justice activism, offering a way to address social justice issues without abandoning reason.
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The Thing You Run Into When Your Beliefs Are False
Lindsay advocates evidence-based inquiry and shows how critical theory ignores "reality is what you run into when your beliefs are false."
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Panel: Grievance Studies
In October 2019, James Lindsay, Peter Boghossian, Helen Pluckrose, and Mike Nayna gathered in London to reflect on the "Grievance Studies" project.
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How Social Justice Silences
Peter Boghossian outlines seven different ways that the Critical Social Justice ideology stifles free speech and discusses each with poignant examples.
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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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The Way Forward
New Discourses convened in October of 2019 in the National Liberal Club of London for a day-long conference titled Speaking Truth to Social Justice. There, Portland State University philosophy professor Peter Boghossian gave a rousing talk about the need to “speak truth in the face of danger,” parrhesia, as the Ancient Greeks called it, as this applies to Critical Social Justice.
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The Truth About Critical Methods
Dr. James Lindsay in his talk, “The Truth About Critical Methods,” makes very clear that Critical Social Justice is not the same thing as social justice.
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Satire in the Digital Age
In this brilliant and hilarious talk, Andrew Doyle provides a worthy and robust defense of both free speech and free thought.
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