15 Quotes by Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay

The "individual" in applied postmodernism is something like the sum total of the identity groups to which the person in question simultaneously belongs.

After the applied postmodern turn, postmodernism was no longer a mode of describing society and undermining confidence in long-established models of reality: it now aspired to be a tool of Social Justice.

It used to be considered a failure of teaching or scholarship to work from a particular ideological standpoint. Academics were incentivized...by knowing that other scholars could - and would - point out evidence of bias or motivating reasoning and counter it with evidence and argument. Teachers could consider their attempts at objectivity successful if their students did not know what their political or ideological positions were.

One does not merely challenge the dominant orthodoxy.

It is hard to see how scientific theories that don't correspond with reality and consequently don't work can benefit marginalized people, or anyone.

Queer Theory is dominated by the problematizing of discourse - how things are spoken about - the deconstruction of categories and a profound skepticism of science.