Helen Pluckrose is brilliant !!

 Helen Pluckrose wrote the following in an article in the online Areo magazine:

“Critical Social Justice has some intellectual underpinnings in ‘critical’ neo-Marxism, but it is mostly grounded in postmodern notions of power, knowledge and language, which view society as constructed of oppressive systems of power and privilege that legitimise some forms of knowledge over others, which then creates ways of speaking about things - discourses - that perpetuate the oppressive power structures. Most people, it argues, are blithely unaware of these oppressive discourses and need theorists and activists to reveal them to us.”

What a great summary !!

She goes on to write:

“CSJ manifests in current scholarship as postcolonial and decolonial theory, Critical Race Theory, intersectional feminism, disability and fat studies or simply as (Critical) Social Justice Scholarship. It appears in activism as a drive to decolonize everything, sees whiteness and white fragility everywhere and scrutinises language for evidence of racism, transphobia, ableism and fatphobia. It is colloquially referred to as Wokeism to indicate an awareness of the oppressive power structures of white supremacy, patriarchy, imperialism, cisnormativity, fatphobia etc, that the majority of us are sleepwalking through.”