Thread by @deonteleologist

Greetings, comrade! Heard the delightful news? Helen Pluckrose--AKA the Mary Wollstonecraft of the 21st century--has just given Western civilization a lifeline. If Critical Race Theory kills us all, at least we'll know our queen did everything she possibly could to stop it. 1/

Ever the philosophical juggernaut, look how she resolves the company's paradoxical commitments.

Not everyone who works with Counterweight is a liberal humanist; they're merely mandated to support the tenets of liberal humanism, though they obviously don't have to. 2/

Pluckrose venerates liberalism, her metanarrative of choice, not as a philosophy grounded in equal rights and freedoms for individuals, but as "a system that allows us to disagree without turning to violence"--as we know, fascists have never risen to power in liberal contexts. 3/

Counterweight is especially concerned to produce a good-faith debate between TERFs and trans rights activists. That's why they brought in such a diverse cast of academic affiliates, including friends of the trans community such as K-Stock, Colin Wright, D-Soh & BenjiBoyce. 4/

Pluckrose has developed a groundbreaking "traffic light" system for people to use to determine whether their workplace is in danger of being totally fucking obliterated by CRT. At the green level, it's not clear whether mind control will be implemented, so don't stress yet. 5/

But Amber means if you don't act quick (by sending Queen Pluck an email), your boss will inevitably haze the living shit out of you and your coworkers in a woke initiation ritual, forcing to you admit Foucault was right about your inability to influence your own behavior. 6/

But let's back up a few steps. What exactly does Counterweight do?

Basically, all the Good Things you could ever ask for. Their "scholarly but accessible books, articles, podcasts, and videos" are certainly their most important gifts to humanity. Who could forget this classic?

Here are three exemplary pages from Cynical Theories, each teeming with rigorous scholarly analysis. As Douglas Murray put it, "I have rarely read such a good summary of how postmodernism evolved from the 1960s onwards." 8/

Finally, the most useful resources of all: the following three videos from expert Obaid Omer. While you might expect original analysis of this Woke scholarship, he somehow does even better: he simply reads entries from New Discourses aloud, verbatim. 9/