Ibramax Kendia and Thomas Sole and Shelby Steele on Podcast

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i hope, i hope you're able to do that. I'd also recommend jason hill. He's on my pockast saturday. We're releasing ta this week. Don't think shelvy steele or ibramax kendia are going to single handedly solve the problem but probably product a productive conversation between them and everybody in between them. There certainly is a lack of moral complexity here. But if we can't look at history and how that word was used, and you nont get that viceral sense of shock from it, that's surely something that will be more effective against racism than not reading the book. It does actually cause people er significant amount of

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 wide-ranging conversation Helen Pluckrose recounts 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.