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Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Our knowledge of history is skewed by the biased records that survive, but the way to mitigate this is to investigate such claims empirically and reveal the falsity of biased narratives, rather than include a greater range of biases and declare some of them immune to criticism.
Helen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
Such racist theories, prominent and respectable for many decades, have become anathema among scientists and politicians alike. People continue to conduct a heroic struggle against racism without noticing that the battlefront has shifted, and that the place of racism in imperial ideology has now been replaced by ‘culturism’. There is no such word, b
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Michelle Alexander in The New Jim Crow.
Ijeoma Oluo • So You Want to Talk About Race
A vision of life together in service to the formation of erotic souls must reckon with the imperialist habits of mind born of whiteness that imagine peoples through boundary identities.
Willie James Jennings • After Whiteness: An Education in Belonging (Theological Education between the Times (TEBT))
Because liberalism sought to remove social expectations from identity categories—black people being expected to do menial jobs, women being expected to prioritize domestic and parenting roles, and so on—and make all rights, freedoms, and opportunities available to all people regardless of their identity, there was a strong focus on the individual a
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Principled Opposition: Example 1 We affirm that racism remains a problem in society and needs to be addressed. We deny that critical race Theory and intersectionality provide the most useful tools to do so, since we believe that racial issues are best solved through the most rigorous analyses possible. We contend that racism is defined as prejudice
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c’est une époque qui juge tout le monde si sévèrement à travers la lorgnette de la politique identitaire que vous êtes d’une certaine façon foutu si vous prétendez résister au conformisme menaçant de l’idéologie progressiste, qui propose l’inclusion universelle sauf pour ceux qui osent poser des questions.
Bret Easton Ellis • White - édition française (French Edition)
Voyez la vérité. Dites la vérité.