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Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

E17. James Lindsay Discusses Punking the Dogmatic Religion of Extreme Social Justice

Walk-Ins Welcome with Bridget Phetasy

Conversations with people from all walks of life.

Society & Culture, Comedy Interviews, Comedy, News, News Commentary

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 February 2019

⏱️ 130 minutes

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Summary

James A. Lindsay is a co-author of the Grievance Studies, a project designed to expose the politicized corruption within social justice geared humanities scholarship by creating bogus academic papers and submitting them to academic journals in the areas of cultural, queer, race, gender, fat, and sexuality studies. He and Bridget have a fascinating discussion about the dogmatism of atheists, the Feminist Glaciology paper that radicalized him, the assault on science, the fascism creeping in from both sides – the left and the right, and why everything we think we know about reality might be wrong. James explains post-modernism and why fitting in matters ten times more to people than being right. Bridget expounds upon why the idea that language is violence and a tool of oppression that must be regulated, strikes terror into her heart. And together they lament the isolation and loneliness of thinking for yourself in today’s culture of ideological tribalism. This is a brilliant deep dive into why intersectional social politics are a toxic way to look at the world and lead to competitive victimhood, the corruption in scholarship that’s fueling the whole social justice, progressive, activist universe, and the doomsday cults of the far left and the far right. For questions, comments or topic requests contact us at: [email protected]

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0:00.0

Thank you for listening to this Podcast One production.

0:02.4

Now available on Apple Podcasts.

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Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts.

0:08.3

This is Walk-In's Welcome with Bridget Petacy.

0:10.9

I'm Bridget Petacy, I'm Bridget Petacy and you are welcome. You know the drill.

0:25.0

the drill.

0:27.0

Please subscribe, rate, comment, share, reach out, tell your friend, send smoke signals, whatever.

0:32.0

We love your feedback and we want to hear from you.

0:35.0

This week my guest is the brilliant James Lindsay.

0:38.1

James Lindsay holds degrees in physics and mathematics with a doctorate in the latter.

0:42.1

His previous books include dot dot infinity plus and being a co-author of the Grievance Studies affair, a project to create bogus academic papers and

0:55.2

submit them to academic journals in the areas of cultural, queer, race, gender, fat, and sexuality

1:01.4

studies.

1:02.4

James and I have a long and winding conversation

1:04.8

about what would lead someone to this kind of project

1:09.2

and it goes all over the place and he blows my mind

1:11.9

and he's absolutely fascinated and

1:13.8

brilliant so make sure your thinking cap is on for this one. Well let's do this

1:18.8

we have the infamous are you infamous, James Lindsay?

1:24.0

Yeah, I think I am.

1:26.0

I think you are too. I think that's appropriate.

1:29.0

Not quite notorious yet.

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