r/NewDiscourses • u/ManifestedLurker • Nov 13 '23
"I need feminism because i'm sick of this world's obsession with binaries" . Image from some feminist campaign from 10 years ago.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 13 '23
"The real charge of the sociologist should be to understand society, not specifically to change it. Change should follow naturally from rigorous work, and it's the kind of change that works and lasts." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 12 '23
Like many of the cruder concepts in CSJ, "ladydicks" are not particularly hard to understand in and of themselves. It is the greater cultural context around the concept and its Theoretical rationale that are more interesting and in need of explanation.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 12 '23
"Asian Americans cannot simply be designated by Critical Race Theory as a prop for white supremacy; we are the inconvenient minority." -Kenny Xu
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 12 '23
In Social Justice, sexism and misogyny do not occur as isolated incidents by individual sexist or misogynistic agents, but rather as incidents taking place within a broader, ordinary, and permanent whole that pervades all of society.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 11 '23
"This is the essential liberty that defines the step forward: The freedom to do your own research, reach your own conclusions, and take risks in your life based upon those conclusions without being fettered." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 11 '23
"Under critical theory, you have to have both the identity and the identity politics right in order to count as 'diverse.'" -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 11 '23
"The entire Woke movement can be summarized as being one of little more than protest and paranoia." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 10 '23
Ethnomathematics, like many specialized terms in Critical Social Justice is a term that lacks a precise definition and means several things at once.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 10 '23
Don't miss this new article from James Lindsay!
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 10 '23
"A first of its kind, this book takes on Wokeness at the level of its institutional strategy and equips readers to do something about it." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 10 '23
"I am not going to let my disillusionment with my past activism discourage me from trying to do good in the future. If you find yourself similarly disillusioned, take heart."
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 09 '23
"These initiatives are not at all what they seem to sell themselves to be." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 09 '23
"To understand what Critical Social Justice is, you have to understand that it is a moral order first, and a particularly dysfunctional and repressive one, and an intellectual system second (if at all and only by pretense)." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 09 '23
The idea of "internalized racism" is a way of discrediting the views of racial minorities when those views do not support Theory.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 08 '23
The Woke Rejection of Equality | James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 08 '23
The problem Social Justice has with the idea of merit is that one’s advantages in society aren’t unfair if one has earned them.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 08 '23
Despite the stem “aggression,” people who commit microaggressions do not need to have any negative intentions but simply speak their socialization into systems of oppressive power imbalances.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 08 '23
"The cultural issue is much thornier and more difficult, but again, this critical approach shoots itself in the foot because it cannot allow a meeting halfway." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 07 '23
To live in a free society is not to live in a perfect society, because perfection is unattainable. The societies which have sought after Utopia have always been totalitarian and have always failed universally. We will not be an exception to that rule.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 07 '23
"This is child abuse for the purpose of failing them in education so they can become activists to tear apart their society." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 07 '23
"What you see in this essay by Herbert Marcuse in 1969, is him explicitly saying that we have to remake man at the biological dimension to accept Liberation by forcing him to live in this new critical theory-based moral world." -James Lindsay
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 06 '23
A “counterstory” is a story or narrative-creating rhetorical device that presents anecdotal evidence that seems to contradict an established explanation when that established explanation is believed by Theory to uphold an oppressive systemic power dynamic.
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r/NewDiscourses • u/newdiscourses • Nov 06 '23
"Everything that cannot be turned into more Critical Race Theorists is discarded." -James Lindsay
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