The Propaganda of Telling the Truth, Falsely
Propaganda takes many forms, and one of the most common is what can be called "telling the truth, falsely," or "being right, wrongly."
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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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OnlySubs: Have Faith and Keep Speaking Up
We need to speak up, tell the truth, and just keep doing it. We also need to have faith that we'll find those who support us once we start doing it.
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You Need to Love the Truth
You have to love the truth with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and tell your neighbor the truth as you want him to tell the truth to you.
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Communism Marries a Truth to a Lie
One of the most basic truths about how Marxism works is that it marries a truth to a lie.
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Mao’s Politics of Compliance
Mao’s politics of compliance divides the population into two. Those who comply are “the people.” Those who resist are “the enemies of the people.”
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The Feeling of Mystification
Host James Lindsay illustrates the conditions of Woke Marxist mystification and talks about how to learn to pierce through it to see reality clearly again.
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American Maoism | James Lindsay
In this lecture from Dr. James Lindsay, the parallels between our experience today and the tools utilized in China under Mao will be made so clear that the unavoidable conclusion will be that we are living through nothing less than American Maoism.
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An Open Letter to Woke Youth
If you are Woke, you are in danger, not from the people you think you need to fight every waking moment of your day but from the people you support. History teaches this.
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“Lived Experience,” Explained
We've all heard it and done everything we can to avoid rolling our eyes now. "It's my lived experience!" as though that's evidence or, actually, even better than evidence.
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The Values of a Post-Woke World
If we continue fighting back—for pushing back is no longer enough—intelligently and firmly against the ideology of Critical Social Justice and the Woke movement it has spawned, we will find ourselves on the road to a post-Woke world, and it is not yet clear what that might look like.
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Psychopathy and the Origins of Totalitarianism
Pseudo-realities, being false and unreal, will always generate tragedy and evil on a scale that is at least proportional to the reach of their grip on power—which is their chief interest—whether social, cultural, economic, political, or (particularly) a combination of several or all of these.
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