Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody - Helen Pluckrose, James A. Lindsay
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Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn’t practice yoga or cook Chinese food? Or been told that being obese is healthy, that there is no such thing as biological sex, or that only white people can be racist? Are you confused by these ideas, and do you wonder how they have managed so quickly to challenge the very logic of Western society? In this probing and intrepid volume, Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay document the evolution of the dogma that informs these ideas, from its coarse origins in French postmodernism to its refinement within activist academic fields. Today this dogma is recognizable as much by its effects, such as cancel culture and social-media dogpiles, as by its tenets, which are all too often embraced as axiomatic in mainstream media: knowledge is a social construct; science and reason are tools of oppression; all human interactions are sites of oppressive power play; and language is dangerous. As Pluckrose and Lindsay warn, the unchecked proliferation of these anti-Enlightenment beliefs present a threat not only to liberal democracy but also to modernity itself. While acknowledging the need to challenge the complacency of those who think a just society has been fully achieved, Pluckrose and Lindsay break down how this often-radical activist scholarship does far more harm than good, not least to those marginalized communities it claims to champion. They also detail its alarmingly inconsistent and illiberal ethics. Only through a proper understanding of the evolution of these ideas, they conclude, can those who value science, reason, and consistently liberal ethics successfully challenge this harmful and authoritarian orthodoxy—in the academy, in culture, and beyond.
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This post has 27 comments with rating of 3.3/5
October 24th, 2020
Yes! Finally!
October 24th, 2020
Many thanks!
October 24th, 2020
Thanks, check Lindsay on Rogan, he seems like a pretty good guy, doing important work
October 24th, 2020
Thank you very much.
> check Lindsay on Rogan
Thanks, I’ll check that out too.
October 24th, 2020
Dang, thank God we have President Trump to push back against racial/sexual and religious equality. He will protect the 1% and hopefully avoid defaulting on his mountainous personal debt if given 4 more years.
October 25th, 2020
*Strictly for the people who don’t know anything about Enlightenment, Postmodernism, Critical Theory, and need to find a scapegoat for today’s problems.
October 25th, 2020
Great stuff!
October 25th, 2020
Such perspectives can be enormously valuable & enriching; providing much-needed alternatives & critiques of rigid, ossified modes of thought. Why not open another window?
October 25th, 2020
A book-length version of “Political correctness gone mad” anecdotes, designed to prove that racism, like the covid virus, is a hoax.
October 25th, 2020
“…while acknowledging the need to challenge the complacency of those who think a just society has been fully achieved.” Extremism, in all its forms, should always be confronted and refuted. And there exists myriad forms. It’s very instructive to read Foucault on language.
October 25th, 2020
@caesar - Nice, complacent people have never achieved progress. If you don’t believe me, go check how the workers, women, children, animals etc. got any rights. Societies should be defined by their capability to take care of the weakest, not by the rich with golden facets in their houses. Confronted and refuted my ass. Like those white supremacists?
October 25th, 2020
So, extremism shouldn’t be confronted and refuted? Okay, that’s a novel view.
“Societies should be defined by their capability to take care of the weakest” - certainly, but just don’t make their lives even worse, with an excess of foolishness.
And the above quote was about how complacency should be challenged, not celebrated. Turn your heating on, Sven!
October 25th, 2020
I don’t mean the progress is fun, particularly when it’s about rights. And I’m sure I would hate most of the people in forefront. Extremism should be sometimes confronted, and always if it takes a violent form. But there a ways and means to do it right.
October 25th, 2020
Edit: “are ways”
October 25th, 2020
True, true.
October 25th, 2020
I shouldn’t write when I’m bushed. I’ll get back to this somewhere sometime.
October 25th, 2020
Mria, have you considered you guys are the baddies? I can confidently say the Nazis were evil, without an absolute understanding of every nuance that the Nazi ideology had (has?)
October 25th, 2020
Illodiini, have you, too, considered you are the baddies here? Not the Orange Man, who is poopoo, and Very Bad? Tbf, you don’t know true progress till you kill evety sparrow in your country and cause a famine.
October 26th, 2020
Wasn’t expecting this book to get so much attention here!
For those who don’t know… this is the team that punked a bunch of “cynical” theory and “grievance” studies journals by publishing 10 or so junk papers in them. If I remember correctly, one was about rape culture at the dog park or something. Pretty funny. An updating of the Sokal affair.
October 27th, 2020
Sokal’s was a weighty, gravid, overdue contribution to the field of knowledge.
October 29th, 2020
This is the unfortunate truth. Much activism, less work. Thanks for the upload.
November 11th, 2020
James went from
*amused a small group of people who pay attention to academic literature*
to
*Joe Rogan +x million bump*
to
*AND WHAT WAS WROUGHT, WHEN THE WARNINGS OF THE PROPHET JAMES OF CLAN LINDSAY AND THE PROPHET BRETT OF HOUSE WEINSTEIN WERE IGNORED, THE FIRST HORSEMAN ROSE, THE FIRST TRUMPET BLARED, AND THE FIRST SEAL WAS BROKEN AS WAS FORETOLD!*
December 1st, 2020
Indoctrination
December 22nd, 2020
Garbage for anti-intellectual conformists who need to be swaddled by lies.
June 12th, 2021
for self-congratulatory gamers, IDWs, and people that have no idea what they’re talking about
February 8th, 2023
Ew
November 3rd, 2024
SCUM ON (ARE) BOTH SIDES?
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