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Cynical Theories. How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender and Identity and Why This Harms Everybody

Paperback • 2021 • English

Cynical Theories. How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender and Identity and Why This Harms Everybody

By Helen Pluckrose , James Lindsay

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Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? 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 managed so quickly to challenge the very logic of Western society? Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay document the evolution of the dogma behind these ideas, from its origins in French postmodernism to its refinement within activist a...Show more

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9781800750326

Published year

2021

Language

English

Original title

Cynical Theories. How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender and Identity and Why This Harms Everybody

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Paperback

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