Hey everyone, it's James Lindsay, welcome to another episode of New Discourses Bullets

where I give a bullet point summary of a single topic within the woke Marxist movement

so you can understand what we're dealing with.

Today we contrast what is critical thinking versus what is critical theory, and to do this

rather than me pontificating, I'm just going to read to a few paragraphs from an academic paper

titled Tracking Privilege Preserving Epistemic Pushback and Feminist and Critical Race Philosophy

Classes by Allison Bailey, who's from Illinois State University. This was published in High

Pasha, the Journal of Feminist Philosophy, leading Journal of Feminist Philosophy that was

published in 2017. I don't need to actually summarize for you what Privilege Preserving

Epistemic Pushback is beyond saying that it is this idea that if you disagree with the woke,

that you're just trying to maintain your privilege. Okay, she has this actually set of a couple

of paragraphs here that I make it totally clear without me having to explain to you what the

difference between critical thinking and critical theory are, and of course they're playing off

the woke or playing off of this use of the word critical in both contexts, which means something

different. So they're going to encourage critical engagement, and they may even encourage critical

thinking, say, and educational materials, and this is what this paper is about, classes, education.

But what you're actually going to find is that they're advocating for something different,

and Allison Bailey makes it perfectly explicit and clear what the difference is, what she means,

and so I want people to hear it. So I'm going to read a couple of paragraphs from

kind of about a third of the way through this paper. The section is critical thinking,

healthy skepticism, and privilege preserving epistemic pushback. The philosophers, she says of education

have long made the distinction between critical thinking and critical pedagogy. So critical pedagogy

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