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December 26, 2020
It's the Week Before New Years [KT]![]() Hope everyone had a good Christmas yesterday. Ours was quiet, but nice. It's been such a strange year. About now, the holidays start to sort of run together. And the retrospectives of the last year start. Why, here's one now: It's "Areo", not "Oreo" You might remember Helen Pluckrose from this, written in 2018, about the award-winning fake "study" of rape culture in dog parks, the paper using Mein Kampf re-written in feminist jargon, etc.: Over the past 12 months, three scholars--James Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose, and Peter Boghossian--wrote 20 fake papers using fashionable jargon to argue for ridiculous conclusions, and tried to get them placed in high-profile journals in fields including gender studies, queer studies, and fat studies. Their success rate was remarkable: By the time they took their experiment public late on Tuesday, seven of their articles had been accepted for publication by ostensibly serious peer-reviewed journals. Seven more were still going through various stages of the review process. Only six had been rejected. The objective of these three scholars was to shake up the left. Not necessarily to attack the left. They are not conservatives, though Lindsay is moving in that direction now in some ways. Of course, they became targets for destruction. Pluckrose and Lindsay wrote a book together. Pluckrose also started on a personal training program and started editing an online magazine, Areo, which emphasizes free speech. Something along the lines of Quillette. Anyway, Areo has begun its retrospective of its most-read articles of 2020. If you want to understand the opposition to reality and history in academia and institutions infected by today's academia, this is not a bad place to start: Remember the Harper's letter? OregonMuse had some great observations. Areo published a piece by "a nobody". Probably one who doesn't hold opinions a lot like those of OregonMuse. I'm terrified to write this--and that's the problem. People are still putting out pieces suggesting that J.K. Rowling has become some sort of monster bent on destroying the lives of trans people, though. So bizarre. The Critical Social Justice (CSJ) movement relies on a specific conception of the world: it does not understand or interpret reality in the same way as the rest of us--especially liberals--do. Our goal is to help people understand this worldview movement and explain how the movement has gained so much traction, despite the fact that so many of its fundamental tenets are bizarre, blatantly false and cartoonish oversimplifications of reality. First, Critical Social Justice scholars and activists believe that they comprise a new and radical grassroots movement pushing back against dominant white, male and Western discourses. Got an acquaintance in college who needs to read this to prepare for the New Year? A case in point, illustrating number 9. Robin DiAngelo's theory of white fragility is defective on so many fronts that it is a wonder people take it seriously. But they do. Quoting a feminist scholar as an introduction to a critique: I never again want anyone to say theorizing doesn't lead to change. Black feminist theory and intersectionality informed the creation of black lives matter. We'd never be this close to change without powerful black queer women organizing & theorizing. I expect that the Areo countdown will continue. Gird up your loins Doing anything to prepare for next year? Glen Loury is doing something a little different. What do you think?
We still have a lot to be thankful for. In case you missed it, here's Muldoon's salute to the greatest generation from a previous thread, featuring an excerpt from his Dad's diary. Try not to get snockered next weekend Stay light-hearted Participate with others as appropriate But watch out for fakes.
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