A windbag's manual (in whatever order).
1) Write manual on impossible convos.
2) Write badly researched anti-theory book.
3) Have book reviewed, i.e. debated, by knowledgeable people.
4) Write blog post that knowledgeable people won't debate you.
5) Block knowledgeable people.
This is what the blog post looks like. It hinges on throwing everything he's read and disliked about critical theory into one pot and ascribing it to everyone he deems "woke."
Cue joke about self-ascribed liberal #JamesLindsay listening to everyone as an intent individual, never perceiving them as a member of a group.
If you're in for even more careful debate than my thread represents, read Sam's response to #JamesLindsay's blog post.
If you criticize #JamesLindsay from a position to the left of him, however carefully you go about it, he will hate you, it seems.
People in the screenshots are thoughtful interlocutors; that doesn't go over well with him: @C_Kavanagh, @lastpositivist, @ETVPod, @MishMei.
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