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"Over the last several years, organizations and institutions throughout the West have adopted comprehensive diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and mandated new forms of employee and student training on antiracism, unconscious bias, gender diversity, cultural sensitivity, and related topics. The stated goals of these programs are often reasonable if not noble--to create a more welcoming space and inclusive environment for all. But such training, when based on the activist ideology known as Critical Social Justice, crosses an illiberal line when participants are required to affirm beliefs they do not hold. Indeed, the mildest questions about or objections to common teachings in these sessions--that all white people are racists, that all underrepresented minorities are oppressed or useful tools of the majority, that sex and gender differences have no biological basis--are regularly met with pat commands: "Educate yourself," "Do the work," "Listen and learn." At work, raises, promotions, and even future employment may well depend on one's nodding approval during such training. At school, grades, nominations, and awards may be contingent upon one's active agreement with these ideological beliefs. When faced with such a predicament--between silent submission and risky if ethical opposition--what is a person to do? The Counterweight Handbook provides individuals with a practical and easily navigable guide to understanding and addressing the issues that are likely to arise when this activist ideology is implemented in their organization or institution. It also teaches them what to do when they are asked to affirm their commitment to beliefs they simply do not hold, undergo training in an ideology they cannot support, or submit themselves to antiscientific testing and retraining of their "unconscious" minds. It is for everyone who wishes to push back against the hostile work and educational environments such training inevitably creates--or who fears being fired, censored, or cancelled for their sincere beliefs and principled convictions"--

Postmodernism: A Revolution in Knowledge and Power -- Postmodernism's Applied Turn: Making Oppression Real -- Postcolonial Theory: Deconstructing the West to Save the Other -- Queer Theory: Freedom from the Normal -- Critical Race Theory and Intersectionality: Ending Racism by Seeing it Everywhere -- Feminisms and Gender Studies: Simplification as Sophistication -- Disability and Fat Studies: Support-Group Identity Theory -- Social Justice Scholarship and Thought: The Truth According to Social Justice -- Social Justice in Action: Theory Always Looks Good on Paper -- An Alternative to the Ideology of Social Justice: Liberalism Without Identity Politics.

In April, 2020, Dr. Geoff Cole published, "Why the 'Hoax' Paper of Baldwin (2018) Should Be Reinstated." We are the authors of the "Baldwin" paper published in Fat Studies. The paper satirized theoretical ideas within Fat Studies as part of a larger project to demonstrate the lack of rigor in certain theoretical approaches to cultural studies. In this response, we agree with Cole that our project should not be understood as hoaxes and that the retracted article should be reinstated, but defend our methods.

Nur weiße Menschen können Rassisten sein, nur Männer sind zu toxischem Verhalten fähig, es gibt kein biologisches Geschlecht, unsere Sprache ist sexistisch – ein neuer moralischer Kanon erobert westliche Universitäten und erschüttert die liberale Gesellschaft. Aber macht er die Welt auch wirklich besser? Helen Pluckrose und James Lindsay begeben sich in ihrem Bestseller auf die Spuren eines wissenschaftlichen Aktivismus, der überall nur noch Feinde sieht.Postmoderne Denker wie Michel Foucault oder Jacques Derrida haben die Strukturen westlicher Gesellschaften so tiefgreifend dekonstruiert wie niemand vor ihnen. Ihr radikaler Skeptizismus hatte jedoch einen Preis. Helen Pluckrose und James Lindsay zeichnen in ihrem kontroversen Buch nach, wie die Grundannahmen der postmodernen Theorie seit den 1980er Jahren im Postkolonialismus, in der Critical-Race-Theorie, im intersektionalen Feminismus, in den Gender Studies und in der Queer-Theorie für den politischen Aktivismus scharf gemacht wurden. Ihr zentraler Befund lautet, dass ein freier Austausch wissenschaftlicher Argumente durch den aus diesen Reihen immer aggressiver vorgetragenen Anspruch auf Deutungshoheit zunehmend unmöglich wird. Damit erweisen der neue wissenschaftliche Aktivismus und seine Wächter den Minderheiten, für die sie sich angeblich einsetzen, jedoch einen Bärendienst: Drängende soziale Probleme werden von einer völlig überzogenen Sprachkritik und Cancel Culture überlagert – und potenziell wohlmeinende Unterstützer ziehen sich entnervt zurück, weil sie im erhitzten Diskursklima vorschnell dem reaktionären Lager zugeschlagen werden