Michael Shermer w/ Helen Pluckrose—Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, Identity
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Full title: Helen Pluckrose — Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity —and Why This Harms Everybody
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Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn’t practice yoga or cook Chinese food? 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?
In this wide-ranging conversation Helen Pluckrose recounts the evolution of the dogma that informs these ideas, from its coarse origins in French postmodernism to its refinement within activist academic fields. Today this dogma is recognizable as much by its effects, such as cancel culture and social-media dogpiles, as by its tenets, which are all too often embraced as axiomatic in mainstream media: knowledge is a social construct; science and reason are tools of oppression; all human interactions are sites of oppressive power play; and language is dangerous.
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This dialogue was recorded on February 19, 2021 as part of The Michael Shermer Show (formerly Science Salon) presented by The Skeptics Society, in California.
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Видео Michael Shermer w/ Helen Pluckrose—Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, Identity канала Skeptic
http://bit.ly/MichaelShermerShow163
Full title: Helen Pluckrose — Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything About Race, Gender, and Identity —and Why This Harms Everybody
SPONSOR
The Great Courses Plus
https://thegreatcoursesplus.com/shermer
Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexist? Have you read that certain people shouldn’t practice yoga or cook Chinese food? 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?
In this wide-ranging conversation Helen Pluckrose recounts the evolution of the dogma that informs these ideas, from its coarse origins in French postmodernism to its refinement within activist academic fields. Today this dogma is recognizable as much by its effects, such as cancel culture and social-media dogpiles, as by its tenets, which are all too often embraced as axiomatic in mainstream media: knowledge is a social construct; science and reason are tools of oppression; all human interactions are sites of oppressive power play; and language is dangerous.
EPISODE NOTES
https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/helen-pluckrose-cynical-theories-how-activist-scholarship-made-everything-about-race-gender-and-identity-and-why-this-harms-everybody/
This dialogue was recorded on February 19, 2021 as part of The Michael Shermer Show (formerly Science Salon) presented by The Skeptics Society, in California.
Listen to The Michael Shermer Show via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Stitcher, iHeartRadio, and TuneIn.
https://www.skeptic.com/michael-shermer-show/
Learn more about Skeptic
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SUPPORT THE PODCAST
You play a vital part in our commitment to promote science and reason. If you enjoy the podcast, please show your support by making a donation. Your ongoing patronage will help ensure that sound scientific viewpoints are heard around the world.
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