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A review by haraldg
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody by Helen Pluckrose, James A. Lindsay
5.0
Traces the emergence of radical left postmodern ideology the past 50 years, and explains how this ideology hurts the social justice cause the activists are supposed to help.
— "Critical race Theory’s hallmark paranoid mind-set, which assumes racism is everywhere, always, just waiting to be found, is extremely unlikely to be helpful or healthy for those who adopt it. Always believing that one will be or is being discriminated against, and trying to find out how, is unlikely to improve the outcome of any situation."
I read this after Sir Roger Scruton's [b:Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left|23848019|Fools, Frauds and Firebrands Thinkers of the New Left|Roger Scruton|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1450180264l/23848019._SY75_.jpg|3355074], which traces development of far left political thought in the West during the 20th century. Cynical theories starts where Fools, Frauds and Firebrands ends, by postmodernism's transformation into social justice, CRT and intersectionality.
— "Critical race Theory’s hallmark paranoid mind-set, which assumes racism is everywhere, always, just waiting to be found, is extremely unlikely to be helpful or healthy for those who adopt it. Always believing that one will be or is being discriminated against, and trying to find out how, is unlikely to improve the outcome of any situation."
I read this after Sir Roger Scruton's [b:Fools, Frauds and Firebrands: Thinkers of the New Left|23848019|Fools, Frauds and Firebrands Thinkers of the New Left|Roger Scruton|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1450180264l/23848019._SY75_.jpg|3355074], which traces development of far left political thought in the West during the 20th century. Cynical theories starts where Fools, Frauds and Firebrands ends, by postmodernism's transformation into social justice, CRT and intersectionality.