What Radicalized You, James Lindsay?

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🗓️ 5 December 2022

⏱️ 195 minutes

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The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 101 James Lindsay, host of the New Discourses Podcast, gets asked all the time about what really got him started in his campaign against Woke Marxism. Invariably, the conversation includes a discussion of the Grievance Studies Affair, but what triggered that? Before the Grievance Studies Affair (https://newdiscourses.com/2020/01/academic-grievance-studies-and-the-corruption-of-scholarship/ ), there was "The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct" (https://www.skeptic.com/downloads/conceptual-penis/23311886.2017.1330439.pdf/ ), and before the Conceptual Penis, there was a real academic paper called "Glaciers, Gender, and Science: A Feminist Glaciology Framework for Global Environmental Change Research" (https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0309132515623368/ ) by four researchers from the University of Oregon, writing on a significant National Science Foundation grant. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, James revisits this paper and shares with you exactly what it says, now understood in great clarity. Join him to hear how he was "radicalized" to start fighting the Woke in a serious manner, in their own words. Pre-order James Lindsay's new book, The Marxification of Education: https://amzn.to/3RYZ0tY Support New Discourses: https://newdiscourses.com/support Follow New Discourses on other platforms: https://newdiscourses.com/subscribe Follow James Lindsay: https://linktr.ee/conceptualjames © 2022 New Discourses. All rights reserved. #newdiscourses #jameslindsay

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0:00.0	Hello again, everybody. This is James Lindsay. You're listening to the new Discourses podcast and
0:25.2	maybe you've seen that meme. I think a lot of people have seen that meme where I show some kind of a
0:30.9	you know NPC or a Wojak or something, a crying guy or whatever. It's like, who radicalized you?
0:37.9	And the the gold-haired gold beard guy kind of leans over and he gets closer and he gets closer and
0:44.8	he says, you did. And so as it's happened, it's come up a number of times in the past few weeks of my
0:52.0	life, both in terms of recording some episodes of this podcast, the new Discourses podcast,
0:58.1	where I covered that odd UNESCO document, which I made a series reading much of that document as
1:06.4	podcast titled The Strange Death of the University, but also in interviews that I've been in,
1:14.4	I've been you know interviewed several times by different people, once the BBC, some other people.
1:20.3	And it keeps coming up, how did you get into this James? How did you get into this? Why did you
1:25.0	start caring so much about these academic papers? Why on earth did you write those grievance studies
1:29.6	papers back in 2017 and 2018, which we just passed the four-year anniversary of that coming out
1:36.3	into the world? So you know, yay, I guess the grievance studies affair gets to go to kindergarten next
1:42.2	year, maybe. Why did you do it? And you know, I keep having to talk about this feminist
1:50.4	glaciology paper that was, I mean, there were a number of triggers that led to, you know, an
1:57.3	increasing amount of focus in my part on this subject, which we now reference as woke or
2:04.1	wokeism or I call woke Marxism, social justice scholarship was a name that we used in cynical
2:10.4	theories for it before the hat. There were a number of triggering events if we want to use that
2:16.0	terminology that led me to take this degree of interest in it, but really the one that kind of
2:20.8	tipped us over the edge into writing the conceptual penis as a social construct, Peter Bergotian,
2:26.4	and I wrote that in 2017. What finally kind of tipped us over the edge, and then that was a
2:32.7	trigger for the grievance studies affair, and that was a trigger for thinking this is an extraordinary
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