The Evolution of Postmodern Thought | Helen Pluckrose

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3. they will target our constitution without having to physically rewrite one word using their new word meaning ideology and co text —

4. In my book justice is not by any stretch the same as social justice. Justice can quite easily be defined by means of natural law. Social justice, in my experice, is just petty thievery justified by artificial morals derived from freedom from responsibility. Other than that, I consider Helen, Peter and James heroes in the words' true sense. I'm glad I'm not alone in defending liberal society.

5. The substance of this presentation was liberal excellence in its most objective form. Self-examinatory and honest.

6. Postmodernism is pure bullshit. I spent a year reading this garbage for a thesis and haven't recovered since. Next time if something looks like vile, divisive, irrational crap, it's best to assume it's vile, divisive and irrational. And do not touch it.

7. Thanks Helen. Very helpful.

8. Post Modern, Social Justice/Woke Fascism, is nothing more and nothing less than "the Emperor's New Clothes" (Hans Christian Anderson Fairy Tale) both in the way it is presented and accepted by it's adherents. To disagree with them, is to risk the ostracisation of the Child who cried out " the Emperor isn't wearing any-……Clothes!

9. Tens of thousands of drafted men killed. But only the ways which the rights of women, minorities and lgbt were denied had been recognized … That always makes me roll my eyes.

10. Oh man, it stopped right when it got interesting. Where is part 2?

11. She's a reactionary git.

12. YES! Thank you, Helen, you ***king nailed that, and in barely more than 30 minutes!

13. I wish she had been given more time. Her overview of the theorists was quite shallow and inaccurate. It sounded like she was reading from Wikipedia. To be fair
    the woke mob's discourse is even more superficial

14. I love the placing of postmodernism into a grand narrative

15. If you are White and believe in WPr, you're showing signs of being a WS.

16. 1984 – Yuri Bezmenov – Love Letter To America

17. Thank you for this. It is hard to explain these concepts to people without them thinking you're some sort of conspiracy theorist before you're able to get your point across. This was the shortest and most concise explanation I've seen so far. Again, thanks for the good work you all are doing.

18. Public speaking is a tall order. Everyone should have access to this knowledge, key to our current crisis

19. She absolutely masters these concepts on our behalf. Thank you for the insight.

20. Derrida thinks words can't really convey meaning. It's a wonder he bothered writing books then! On the other hand, if he said that his peculiar concatenation of words don't really convey meaning, he'd be right.

21. Almost choked when she called Robin DiAngelo a “scholar”

22. I didn’t understand everything she talked about I come closer to understanding it when she describes it than with anybody else

23. Who in the public eye has been called out for something they said 20 years ago which is only now considered homophobic And exactly what did they say that is now homophobic?

24. Without a doubt the best primer and history in a short amount of time on how we’ve ended up where we are

25. What dishonest scholarship the left has engaged in! Draping themselves in the legitimacy of the university and "reason", and ultimately science itself, while pushing nihilism and their radical politics.

26. Thank you.

27. Thank you for this.

28. I love this woman.
    A rare voice of knowledge and reason in academia these days.

29. Mind. Blown. What an awesome woman.

30. Sigh. The far right don't speak about segregation. Only the left. She makes so much sense, but it's still disturbing that someone this insightful and educated still can't see that "liberty" is the far right. I guess that's a centrist/leftist liberal mind speaking, not the intelligent side. "Alt-right" is identical to the left, except they may reach the opposite conclusion based on the same world view, and they don't call themselves socialists. Nazis do call themselves socialists, but not Marxists. And all of them are on the left. The opposite of "Fascism isn't "Socialism", the opposite of both is "Liberty". Also known as "the extreme right", just next to conservatives and as far away from Communists and Nazis as you can possibly get. They have almost nothing in common and can therefore not be right-wing. It's sad how someone so otherwise clearheaded still lack this basic understanding, and insist on using the far left (Marxist/Lenin/Stalin) vocabulary of the political dichotomy. And I wish that they would use the term "neomarxists" instead of "postmodernists", as that would be much more clear and accurate.

31. Well, I don't want to be a smartass but Social Justice is not post-modernist because it hinges on the idea of an objective truth. It may use or assimilate some post-modernist terminology, but it's different thing altogether.

32. This woman is amazing!!

33. I did not understand any of this until she explained so beautifully.

34. There is a simple defense against the white fragility argument. To judge privilege based upon statistics which represent white culture is fundamentally racist in itself. White westerners have supermarkets, the average Nigerian does not. To call this white privilege is to ASSUME THAT THE WHITE SCENARIO IS SUPERIOR. The whole white privilege argument rests on the initial premise that what white people have IS superior. The entire argument is self defeating from the start as it is built on the foundational belief that what whites have is superior and those who do not have it ire disadvantaged. Most people do not see this however as the post modernists are correct in that we are raised to believe in our own culture, not understanding that this is in fact a social construct. I should point out that this is not a bad thing in itself as binding social constructs are neccessary for a functional society. I fear that SJW'S are constructing a dis-functional societal construct

35. Has James Lindsey ever considered that the root of all of this comes from the same place it always did. The tribe. Just look at George Soros

36. Helen is the best, thank God for her.

37. While this talk/discourse given by Ms. Pluckrose is highly intellectual [and way above my limited brain], whatever happened to academia teaching the classical sciences? A higher education in things with practical applications not-so-much relating to people or interactions. Whatever happened to pursuing knowledge that is politically-free in areas such as:
    Physics; Economics; Chemistry; Calculus; Language Arts/Composition; Engineering/Mathematics; Biology; etcetera.
    To my pea brain, this is where society strayed off the beaten path. Again, Helen gives a brilliant talk here, a true gem. I just see danger in delving into contentious area's that can cause debate.

38. 5:22 start here
    9:17 enter post-modernism
    11:23 deconstruction and the post-structuralists (skepticism of Meta-narratives (Lyotards postmodern condition).
    12:07 Moral and factual relativism (Science is just another meta-narrative, with no more explanatory 'Power' than any other).
    12:50 Jaques Derrida (Words are just signs pointing at signs. Use them to reframe things). The reversal. The Hierarchy of words.
    14:12 Michel Foucault (Cultural construct, PowerKnowledge, biopower)
    17:33 The imperative of post modern approaches: study the discourses of a society, find the foucaultian power knowledge, invert the Derridian binaries, and empower the Lyotardian mini-narratives.
    17:47 List of essential ideas behind the post modern approaches.
    19:10 Post modern ideas in the Social Justice Movement.
    21:40 Kimberle Crenshaw's intersectionality and the inadequacies of liberalism (pm)
    22:54 Judith Butler, gender performativity, and queer theory.
    23:47 Applied post-modernism: Critical Race theory.
    27:10 Everything in terms of a scale
    27:45 a system of scholarship closed to external critique. The house of conceptual cards.
    28:08 Peggy Macintosh and white privilege
    28:28 Barbara Applebaum: Getting away with white privilege by acknowledging it.
    28:48 White complicity: On a Scale of racist to really racist, how racist are you? Trick question, you are as racist as you are white!
    29:02 Robin Deangelo, white fragility, and the kafka trap.
    29:40 The post modern church. You must agree that you are a racist patriarchal white male or else we will call you a racist patriarchal white male. If you disagree they will reference books citing papers which cite other papers that cite papers with no attempt to interrogate reality itself (because the scientific method is just a tool of white supremacy). It's all just signs pointing at signs right?
    31:00 Core tenants of the Critical Race orthodoxy (ask not if racism has taken place, but how racism has manifested in a given situation)
    33:13 This all sounds terrifying, what can we do now? Liberals must recognize that this is an anti liberal movement.

39. We must defend Western civilisation from Chinese communism , Islamic jihad and Postmodernism!

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