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Helen Pluckrose. Still just wanting you to value evidence- based epistemology and consistently liberal ethics. The Overflowings of a Liberal Brain is a community-driven publication that addresses political & cultural issues and offers a liberal perspective on how to understand them and respond to them. Still just wanting you to value evidence ...
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At the outset of the conversation, Pluckrose helped to define “critical social justice theory.” She explains that CSJ sees society as divided and stratified by power dynamics and systems of power and privilege. These systems were put in place over time by those in power in order to protect and maintain their power. The work of critical social justi...
CSJ thus stands at odds with “liberalism” which privileges individual merit and the marketplace of ideas. CSJ theorists contend that liberalism upholds the oppressive systems, privileging certain groups and punishing others. In other words, the alleged neutral meritocracy is a myth, insofar as the systems and structures of merit privilege those in ...
Pluckrose worries about the consequences of CSJ. We have long strived for tearing down social and racial barriers, but CSJ reifies and reinforces them, creating barriers in society. The theory leans heavily on the formative and ineluctable role that race plays in forming individuals—again as both oppressors and oppressed. Pluckrose gives the exampl...
First of all, Pluckrose suggests, we can be bold in expressing commitment to liberalism and liberal values. In the workplace and elsewhere, she encourages discussion by saying things like, “I don’t believe what you believe. I oppose racism and sexism, but I do not believe what you believe.” She has found that by talking to others openly, we create ...
Author, cultural writer. Known for. Grievance studies affair. Notable work. Cynical Theories (2020) Helen Pluckrose is a British author and cultural writer known for critiques of critical theory and social justice [1] and promotion of liberal ethics, most notably in the grievance studies affair. [2][3][4][5]
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Mar 16, 2021 · Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity‐and Why This Harms Everybody Pitchstone Publishing, 2020. 352 p. $27.95 - RICH - 2021 - Population and Development Review - Wiley Online Library. BOOK REVIEW.
