Cynical Theories
How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity and Why This Harms Everybody
by Helen Pluckrose
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“If you want to understand our current cultural revolution, this is the book you must read: By @HPluckrose @ConceptualJames | Nice book! | There are books that are “must reads.” This book is an “absolute must read.””
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Sociology, Politics, and Philosophy.
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 manage...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Sociology, Politics, and Philosophy.
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Peter Boghossian
“If you want to understand our current cultural revolution, this is the book you must read: By @HPluckrose @ConceptualJames | Nice book! | There are books that are “must reads.” This book is an “absolute must read.””
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