James Lindsay: The monkey is out of the box and it HATES liberalism
Decoding the Gurus
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The Metaphor of Critical Theory and Social Justice
i think criticism of robin d' angelow is pretty widespread and including a lot of people who are very sympathetic of social justice because i think she does represent a point along the popularized spectrum. There's an important distinction between these two worldviews and it's one that the practitioners themselves make so let me play another clip which is Kim reading from the d'Angelo book directly where they make this point. The idea is to present critical theory and social justice as a kind of Trojan horse with destructive and corrosive stuff being smuggled in to the city of liberalism under the guise of friendship, he says.
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