163. Helen Pluckrose — Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
The Michael Shermer Show
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The Endwords, I Think, Are a Good Thing.
The word ginger has a terrible history of being used to abuse, oppress and subdue. Just six seemingly harmless letters arranged in a way that will form a word with more power than the pieces of metal that are for to make swards. A couple of gs, an r and an e and i and an n, just six little letters jumbled together, have caused damage that we may never mend. It's important that we all respect that if these people happen to choose to reclaim the word as their own, it doesn't mean the rest of you have a right to its use. I think there's a a moral complexity in which we can actually acknowledge that america's racial history
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