The Virus of Critical Social Justice

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🗓️ 12 June 2021

⏱️ 122 minutes

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 40 It is not normally appropriate to liken one's ideological opponents to something like a virus, but what should we do when the people who hold that ideology liken themselves to viruses like HIV, Ebola, and SARS? This circumstance may seem strange and unlikely, but it is exactly what we encounter with Critical Social Justice. In 2016, two feminist scholars, Breanne Fahs and Michael Karger, both of Arizona State University, published a bizarre academic paper doing exactly that. They called this paper "Women's Studies as a Virus: Institutional Feminism, Affect, and the Projection of Danger" (https://www.hipatiapress.com/hpjournals/index.php/generos/article/view/1683), and in it, they (almost unbelievably) characterize viruses like those named above and also cancer as an ideal metaphor for what their ideology hopes to accomplish and how it should do it. This has to be seen (or heard) to be believed, so in this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James Lindsay reads through the entire paper, offering his commentary as he goes. Join him to hear this unbelievable characterization of Critical Social Justice (that is, Woke) ideology in its own words. Support New Discourses: paypal.me/newdiscourses newdiscourses.locals.com/support patreon.com/newdiscourses subscribestar.com/newdiscourses youtube.com/channel/UC9K5PLkj0N_b9JTPdSRwPkg/join Website: https://newdiscourses.com Follow: facebook.com/newdiscourses twitter.com/NewDiscourses instagram.com/newdiscourses https://newdiscourses.locals.com pinterest.com/newdiscourses linkedin.com/company/newdiscourses minds.com/newdiscourses reddit.com/r/NewDiscourses Podcast: @newdiscourses podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-…es/id1499880546 bit.ly/NDGooglePodcasts open.spotify.com/show/0HfzDaXI5L4LnJQStFWgZp stitcher.com/podcast/new-discourses © 2021 New Discourses. All rights reserved.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone, you are listening to the new Discourses podcast, I'm James Lindsay.
0:26.0	For a long time, I've been talking about this one academic paper that posits the women's
0:32.5	studies as a virus.
0:34.7	And you think this is something that may be Peter Bergotian, Helen Blocker, and I wrote
0:38.5	for the Green Studies Affair.
0:39.9	No, it turns out it's not.
0:44.2	It's something that they wrote for themselves.
0:45.5	So for a long time, I've been trying to make the case that critical theories work like viruses.
0:51.5	How does that work?
0:52.5	Real simply, they find certain ways, certain proteins, if you will, since we're all familiar
0:57.1	with this with the pandemic, where they can attach to an institution, whether that's
1:01.1	a kind of physical institution or, you know, like the Department of Justice or whether
1:05.5	that's kind of an idea in a sense of, you know, some societal norm or whatever they
1:10.4	attach to it.
1:12.0	And then they're able to inject their DNA into that, and then they're able to subvert
1:15.4	and change the DNA inside of that institutional cell to become critical theory.
1:21.9	And then that cell, once infected, only produces more critical theory.
1:27.4	It doesn't produce any, if it's a company, it doesn't produce what it used to produce
1:30.8	as a company.
1:31.8	If it's an institution, it doesn't do what it used to do.
1:34.2	It only reproduces the woke ideology once it gets inside.
1:38.3	And then if it destroys that cell, eventually that cell will run out of resources and die,
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