Reflections on Intersectionality
Different forms of suffering cannot easily be quantified and compared.
Coleman Hughes
· 7 min read
Activism
A collection of 247 posts
False Humility Will Not Save the Planet
The right way to look at anthropogenic climate change is as an unexpected side-effect of something that, by and large, proved an immense blessing to humanity.
Maarten Boudry
· 13 min read
Accessibility, Ableism, and the Decline of Excellence
Differences that benefit the individual (beauty, intelligence, wealth, initiative) can only be understood as unfair privileges, while differences that do not redound to the individual’s benefit can only be made into disabilities which ultimately perpetuate inequity.
Adam Ellwanger
· 13 min read
Mark Zuckerberg and the Changing Civil Rights Movement
The truth is therefore that Mark Zuckerberg’s reading of civil rights history with respect to its relationship to free speech is closer to the mark than that of many who have inherited the mantle of the movement.
John R. Wood, Jr.
· 6 min read
GM Crops Like Golden Rice Will Save the Lives of Hundreds of Thousands of Children
The International Rice Research Institute developed numerous different Golden Rice strains back-crossed into commonly grown varieties, behind tough security barriers because of constant threats from activists encouraged by Greenpeace.
Matt Ridley
· 11 min read
The Futility of Guilt-Based Advocacy
Your accountability is just your portion of the mob’s.
Steven D. Hales
· 10 min read
Please Stop Calling Yourself a 'Feminist Badass'
Calling yourself a badass doesn’t convey anything other than the distinct impression that you are, in fact, the opposite of a badass.
Meghan Daum
· 9 min read
The Free-Speech Problem on Australian Campuses Is More CCP than SJW
After years of austerity measures implemented by conservative governments, Australia’s publicly-funded higher-education sector is barely solvent.
Drew Pavlou
· 6 min read
Science Fiction Purges its Problematic Past
Instead, as speculative fiction becomes more diverse, the sense that it must be corrected grows, and author and art are evaluated together.
Craig DeLancey
· 9 min read
Meet the Gay Activists Who've Had Enough of Britain's Ultra-Woke Homophobes
Despite all the harassment to which LGB Alliance already has been subject, the group still got off to a flying start.
Helen Joyce
· 9 min read
Toronto's Meghan Murphy Meltdown: A Case Study in Media-Driven Social Panic
In some cases, media bosses no longer even pretend that their staffers are anything but in-house social-justice activists.
Jonathan Kay
· 12 min read
Male-Bodied Rapists Are Being Imprisoned With Women. Why Do so Few People Care?
It appears that common sense is forgotten once the words “gender identity” are invoked.
April Halley
· 15 min read
Understanding the Propaganda Campaign Against So-called ‘TERFs’
It certainly sounds bad (“exclusion” being a modern secular sin), for it suggests that so-called TERFs want trans people excluded from health care, or from jobs or homes, or from society as a whole—or even from life itself.
Helen Joyce
· 9 min read
How the Trans-Rights Movement Is Turning Philosophers Into Activists
Can we not treat trans people as the sex they identify with for almost all purposes, and still make some distinctions when it comes to female-only spaces, services and provisions?
Holly Lawford-Smith
· 17 min read
In the U.S. Campus Speech Wars, Palestinian Advocacy Is a Blind Spot
This silencing campaign presents itself as inclusive and therapeutic. In reality, it poses a significant threat to intellectual and academic freedom, yet one that seems perennially overlooked in the campus speech wars.
Andy Lamey
· 19 min read