Some summary notes on “Cynical Theories” :

 - it is profoundly ironic that a movement claiming to problematise all sources of privilege is led by highly educated, upper middle class scholars and activists who are so oblivious to their status as privileged members of society.

- they want to include the lived experiences, emotions, and cultural traditions of minority groups and consider them “knowledges”, and privilege them over reason and evidence-based knowledge, which they claim is unfairly dominant.

- the postmodern knowledge principle that knowledges flow from identity...

- they believe that everything important is socially constructed...

- there is also the assumption that “oppressed people” all have the same experiential knowledge, presumably defined by their identities....

- one’s relative position within a social power dictates what one can and cannot know: thus the privileged are blinded by their privilege and the oppressed possess a kind of double sight, in that they understand both the dominant position and the experience of being oppressed by it.

- SJW people have a priestlike certainty of their own rightness and the concomitant need to re-educate and shut down anyone who disagrees...

- they hold that all white people are racist, and it is impossible for them not to be racist, because of the powerful racist discourses they were born in to...