The Birth of a New American Mythology
We are witnessing the birth of a new national mythology in America, and it is not good news.
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The Nature of Pseudo-Reality
The pseudo-reality holds as its North Star a Utopian vision that aligns with artificial resolutions to their inability to cope with reality as it is, and it thereby attracts others who have similar issues.
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The Five Most Moronic and Dangerous Woke Ideas of 2020
Here is my admittedly somewhat subjective list of the five most absurd and outrageous woke ideas being discussed in 2020. I owe a debt of gratitude to New Discourses for its Social Justice Encyclopedia, which allowed me to easily pick from its long litany of woke folly.
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The Next Chapter in the American Story
One type of story is a national story, and in this episode of the New Discourses podcast, James Lindsay makes the case that Americans have, by and large, forgotten the totality of their own story.
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Four Fallacies of the Woke Prohibition of Cultural Arguments
In banishing culture, the woke prohibitionists leave only one viable explanation: structure.
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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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GamerGate’s 6th Anniversary – How Gamers Were the First to Stand Up Against Grievance Social Justice
GamerGate is the canary in the Woke coal mine that you’ve probably never looked closely at, but once you do, you see that it represents the victory of the honest person in the comments section winning over the dishonest journalist writing the article.
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Peter Boghossian: How Social Justice Silences
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 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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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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Hurtling Toward Totalitarianism: A Call To Action In Defense Of All We Hold Dear
You are a soldier in a war being waged right now.
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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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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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Die Woke Belastungsgrenze
Fast jeder hat einen Woke Belastungsgrenze. Ein Punkt von Peak Woke. Oder zumindest sollten sie es tun.
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Wokeness and Its Not-at-all-racist Doctrines of Disempowerment
This isn't empowerment. It's disempowerment, even if we discount the other costs of such a not-at-all-racist doctrine.
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The Woke Breaking Point
Almost everybody has a Woke Breaking Point. A point of Peak Woke. Or, at least, they should.
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Iconoclasm as a Prelude to Woke Horrors?
The nature of book-burnings and iconoclasm lends itself to ideology.
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They Can’t Cancel All of Us: How We Fought the Woke Thought Police and Won
This is the story of how Social Justice Activists turned the [Canadian] Law Society into the thought police.
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