Helen Pluckrose
Editor @AreoMagazine
Secular, liberal humanist. Mother. Doglover. Does grievance studies well which is to say badly.
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Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility Theory Falls Prey to Logical Fallacies
Merion West is a new magazine where all voices are welcome.
I Asked Thousands of Biologists When Life Begins. The Answer Wasn't Popular
Shortly after being awarded my Ph.D. by the University of Chicago’s department of Comparative Human Development this year, I found myself in a minor media whirlwind. I was interviewed by The Daily Wire, The College Fix, and Breitbart. I appeared on...
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White Fragility Theory Is a Bullying Rhetorical Tactic
The purpose of this paltry sophistry is sheer manipulation.
Californians Learning That Solar Panels Don’t Work in Blackouts
Californians have embraced rooftop solar panels more than anyone in the U.S., but many are learning the hard way the systems won’t keep the lights on during blackouts.
Lo que la Justicia Social hace bien
Escrito por Helen Pluckrose y publicado en Areo el 8 de octubre de 2019
What Social Justice Gets Right
Social Justice ideas and the postmodern thought that underlies them are extremely difficult to critique in a balanced way. This is largely caused by black-and-white thinking: many people wrongly be…
Episode 039 - Eric Kaufmann - Fight, Flee, Repress or Join: Facing the Mixed Race Future
Timestamps
3:50 Eric argues that people’s feelings about immigration aren’t linked to economic anxiety
4:42 Brexit/Trump/populist right support isn’t linked to social class. What does predict this?
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Fighting Postmodernism from the Left, Helen Pluckrose & Peter Boghossian
Helen Pluckrose and Peter Boghossian have taken up positions at the front lines of the culture war. To highlight what they saw as ideological capture of the ...
Masters of Reality - T.U.S.A.
From "Sunrise on the Sufferbus" (Chrysalis, 1992). This album featured Ginger Baker on drums.
Helen Pluckrose
Oh noooo! Ginger Baker. Best known (to me) for his work on this wonderful song helping Americans understand tea.
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Universal Orlando character fired after flashing hate symbol on biracial child’s shoulder
“I’m hoping this doesn’t happen to another family and I pray every night that this doesn’t happen to another child again,” Tiffiney Zinger said.
Nobel Prize for Chemistry awarded to man who got American to make decent cup of tea
This year's Nobel Prize for Chemistry has gone to a man who 'achieved the impossible' by getting an American to make a halfway decent cup of tea.
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Helen Pluckrose
OMG, I love this so much. Everyone read it immediately and understand what I have to put up with. newsthump.com/2016/10/04/nob…
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Why the Joker Has Provoked a Backlash
On 4 October, an event transpired that, in some circles at least, seemed to provoke as much anxiety as the impending eruption of a volcano: a movie was released. The Joker, starring Joaquin Phoenix…
A Short Review of Wilchins’ Queer Theory, Gender Theory
Riki Wilchins’ book Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer is an accessible introduction to Queer Theory, a discipline which seeks to disrupt the male/female gender binary by deconstr…
Seizing the Means of Knowledge Production
Erstwhile reformers of higher ed institutions should seek deeper knowledge about the origins of the concepts and methods that currently dominate.
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Thigh-gate and death threats: the sad spectacle of victimhood
Women are leading the charge against Brexit by playing the victim. This is a disaster for equality.
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity--And Why This Harms Everybody: Amazon.co.uk: James A Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose: 9781634312028: Amazon.co.uk
Buy Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity--And Why This Harms Everybody by James A Lindsay, Helen Pluckrose (ISBN: 9781634312028) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery...
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Helen Pluckrose
Ooh! Our book is available for pre-order! Still much info to go on the page tho including other versions than hardcover.
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Bad Psychology: Why Climate Change Won’t Be Solved by Better Decisions at the Supermarket
Did you know that if we all recycled one plastic bag, we could use those materials to make 28,906 park benches? Did you also know that if we’re ever going to solve the climate crisis, we need to st…