I just read through this interview between @clairlemon and @HPluckrose. A few gems worth highlighting, so I’ll do a quick thread 🧵 quillette.com/2021/05/25/pod…
Helen attributes this to Foucault, as she does in Cynical Theories. Still waiting on a citation. If anyone finds one, let me know—or let Helen know, I’m sure she would find it useful to actually provide page numbers in the book’s second edition.
I love this claim, that systematic analyses of patriarchy/white supremacy etc. are invented by Foucault, and that no women or people of color were capable of coming up with this radical concept on their own before him.
Ah yes, Foucault, famous for arguing “we must dismantle everything”
This is incredibly cringe tbh, especially coming from Helen who claims she is sympathetic to Marxism. “Marx thought philosophy would free the proletariat” 🥴
Helen doesn’t understand epistemic violence, again
These conceptions of epistemic oppression and epistemic death are laughable. It’s like she didn’t even read the papers, just heard the names of the concepts and guessed
“Why couldn’t everyone just accept the way things were in 1989?!???”
What’s terrifying is that Helen continues to lie to the public about this every chance she gets. The hoax paper in question absolutely did not argue any such thing.
Astonishingly incorrect. CRT critiques **traditional civil rights discourse** as too idealistic and universalist —not the CRM.
It doesn’t want to overturn liberalism entirely.
It CONTINUES the work of MLK.
And Helen is writing a book about Black political thought 🤦♂️ [fin]
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