Activism - Quillette (Page 15)

Self-Harm Versus the Greater Good: Greta Thunberg and Child Activism

A workplace strike shows company owners and management that workers are able to harm them economically. A school strike, on the other hand, constitutes a form of self-harm, undertaken to attract adult attention.

Paulina Neuding

23 Apr 2019 · 7 min read

When Children Protest, Adults Should Tell them the Truth

The climate debate is a complicated one. It requires the careful weighing of interests and trade-offs, not the uncompromising fanaticism of an absolutist.

Kathrine Jebsen Moore

21 Mar 2019 · 8 min read

The Environment Is too Important to Leave to Environmentalists

We know enough to understand that we should be taking serious action. The fact that the only groups advocating action at the moment are demanding questionable strategies doesn’t change that.

Mallen Baker

16 Mar 2019 · 13 min read

Why the American Left Should Embrace Effective Altruism over Provincial Populism

Principle of impartiality, universalizability, equality, or whatever, we cannot discriminate against someone merely because he is far away from us.

Matt Johnson

27 Feb 2019 · 9 min read

A Witch-Hunt on Instagram

Knitting, which helps lower the blood pressure and keep the mind busy, has enjoyed an upsurge in popularity in recent years.

Kathrine Jebsen Moore

17 Feb 2019 · 10 min read

Homophobia and the Modern Trans Movement

Gender dysphoria gradually has replaced homosexuality as a subject of fascination by clinicians and activists.

Sky Gilbert

31 Jan 2019 · 14 min read

The Virtue Economy

These data are consistent with Amnesty’s findings, where nearly 9 percent of Twitter mentions toward black women were problematic.

Suzie Mulesky

31 Jan 2019 · 16 min read

What PETA Has Cost the Animal Rights Movement

In fact, the word “PETA” has become a pejorative for stunts, gimmicks, and putting feelings over facts when it comes to animal issues.

Jacy Reese

28 Dec 2018 · 5 min read

The New Evolution Deniers

The massive social media website Twitter—the central hub for cultural discourse and debate—is now actively banning users for stating true facts about basic human biology.

Colin Wright

30 Nov 2018 · 10 min read

Silencing Women in the Name of Trans Activism

Since I made my story public, Goldstein has tried to suggest that he is the true victim, and that he was bullied into apologizing to me (“a decision I now retract”).

Julie Bindel

31 Oct 2018 · 8 min read

Do Advocacy Groups Belong in Academia?

Science seeks to explain the world, but explanation conflicts with condemnation, which is an important component of injustice and in turn advocacy.

Uri Harris

11 Oct 2018 · 11 min read

Single Issue Campaigning and the Polarisation Problem

Campaigns that mischaracterise issues and stigmatise opponents reduce the complex to the simplistic in ways that are fundamentally unhelpful

Ali Goldsworthy and Rob Blackie

9 Oct 2018 · 8 min read

Effective vs. Pathological Altruism

What if feeding the hungry creates more hungry people to feed?

Jonathan Anomaly

26 Sep 2018 · 5 min read

My Unpopular Opinion: There Are Too Many Mediocre Artists

There are too many artists, too many people who want to be artists, most of them aren’t very good, and schools should focus on inculcating self-discipline rather than dopey ‘all must have prizes’ creativity.

Helen Dale

21 Aug 2018 · 5 min read

The Forgotten Story of How "Punching Up" Harmed the Science-Fiction/Fantasy World

Drama in the sci-fi/fantasy fandom may not be of great consequence for larger society (though the politicization of culture is a real and spreading problem).

Cathy Young

18 Aug 2018 · 11 min read