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For @LiberalCurrents, I wrote a review of Cynical Theories, a book by @HPluckrose and @ConceptualJames about postmodernism's transformation from a benign theory into an existential threat to the foundations of civil society. Yes, this is what they argue. liberalcurrents.com/the-cynical-th…
My review focuses on Ch. 8, where P&L argue that contemporary academic philosophers see science and reason as white, male, and Western––thus "no better than the Theoretically interpreted lived experiences of members of marginalized groups, which must be constantly elevated"
Who are these "reified postmodernists," you ask? Kristie Dotson, Nora Berenstain, José Medina, Lorraine Code, and Charles Mills, just to name a few. (Yes, really: Charles Mills, the author of "Black Radical Kantianism" and proponent of "black radical liberalism." Postmodernist.)
My review has the details, but I just want to highlight how unethical and inaccurate the authors are in their portrayal of Kristie Dotson. Here I explain how they distort her essay "How Is This Paper Philosophy?" as they claim she thinks evidence and reason belong to white men. Image
Next, they go after her 2014 article "Conceptualizing Epistemic Oppression," which they seem to think was called "Tracking Epistemic Oppression." They say with absolutely zero evidence that Dotson finds epistemic value in WITCHCRAFT. Witchcraft? Yes, witchcraft. ImageImage
According to @ConceptualJames, Woke scholarship is just uncharitable readings, name-calling, lack of nuance, and ignorance of context.

This is exactly how he and @HPluckrose operate. By their own standards, Cynical Theories is an exemplar of Wokeness.

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It has been promoted by Charlie Kirk & Jack Posobiec as proof that MLK & the civil rights movement were secretly Communist. 🧵 Image
1. Leading up to MLK Day this year, Kirk & Posobiec decided they were going to abandon the standard Republican ritual (quoting King out of context, depicting the civil rights hero as a colorblind conservative).

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2. On the eve of MLK Day, Posobiec was promoting UNCLE TOM II and its narrator Chad O. Jackson as authoritative sources on King's connections to "Communists."

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Because everyone is talking about Ibram Kendi: it is so deeply upsetting to me that when reading groups and book lists were popping up after George Floyd was murdered it was always the work of people like Kendi & DiAngelo. Imagine if everybody read Charles Mills instead 🥲
Robin DiAngelo made a shit ton of money telling other white people that white people are basically incurably racist and Ibram Kendi made a shit ton of money basically claiming to be the sole arbiter of what racism truly is and refused to acknowledge any critiques of his views
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and go read Charles Mills
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A quick thread on Nixon & Rufo 🧵
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Nixon was deeply racist. Ex 1: Nixon & Reagan discuss African diplomats
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