A review by lischa3000
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity — And Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose, James Lindsay

informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

5.0

This was a very important and  profound read for me. It made me think differently about some of my earlier reads, and how these books have unpurposefully or otherwise lead some people down a path of intolerance, victimhood and destruction of language, to the point of creating social, political and legal rights implications for the groups these "activists" pretend to be serving.

Protecting liberal and secular values against unscientific, politically correct, "Social Justice Theories" is of vital importance, in order to safeguard the actual social justice progress we have made and can make in the future. 

Only down side to the book is that it's not very approachable. The need to "be academic" to showcase evidence for the shallow intellectual origin of this new Social Justice movement is understandable. Nonetheless, it's not conducive to attracting a larger audience, who would benefit from the knowledge.