By Val Thomas This is a public health warning: the seal on the tin labelled Counselling and Psychotherapy has been tampered with and the contents have become contaminated. Mainstream culture has been captured by Critical Social Justice, an ideology that prioritises group identity over the individual. The wholescale adoption of this belief system threatens to […]
How We Bend The Knee To Our HR Overlords
Aris Roussinos at Unherd draws on the ideas of Louis Althusser to illuminate how the radical rhetoric of contemporary self-styled anti-racism morphs into a successor ideology. Far from toppling capitalism, it is proving popular with many HR departments and a good friend to a new liberal élite: Like the wave of statue-toppling earlier this summer, […]
Unconscious Bias Training Is Divisive Nonsense
Many public and private institutions and workplaces are turning to alleged anti-racist training materials and providers that endorse the idea of unconscious bias, which is itself based on a scientifically discredited concept of implicit association tests. The result, argues Carrie Clark at Spiked Online, can only be more resentment: The test seemed to show that […]
“I Left the British Psychological Society — And This Is What Happened”
Psychologist Kirsty Miller blogs on Medium about her experience of becoming professionally homeless. [A]fter a great deal of deliberation I decided to cancel my membership. This was a big decision, because being unable to say I was a member of the BPS could potentially have implications for my career… …In the current economic climate I […]
Why Black Lives Matter are so dangerous
Nick Buckley wrote a blog post criticising Black Lives Matter, and found himself targeted by an online petition to have him removed as CEO of the youth charity he founded. Here’s his account of what happened and how he fought back. I wrote the blog not to express a personal opinion, but because I have […]
The threat to civil liberties goes way beyond ‘cancel culture’
We are facing a “historic disaster”, argues Leigh Phillips writing in Jacobin. Today’s so-called progressives “have become indifferent to free speech, or, worse, come to view the defense of free speech as something foreign to the Left and a weapon of oppression”. One might expect the liberal-left to be among the strongest defenders of free […]
We’re facing a tsunami of censorship
“The authoritarian tide is rising”, warns Toby Young. It’s now “open season on mavericks and dissenters”. How can we push back? If you publicly challenge any of the sacred nostrums of the social justice left and you work in a school, a college, a university, an arts company, a public broadcasting organisation, a tech company, […]
Racial sensitivity training turned me into a confused racist
Lloyd Evans recounts his experience of an online training programme designed to teach ‘racial sensitivity’: I couldn’t help concluding that two messages were being conveyed. First, that office workers should treat each other with courtesy and friendliness. Secondly, that many white people are almost entirely devoid of these virtues. Read more Photo by You X […]
On ‘White Fragility’
Robin DiAngelo’s bestseller has “a simple message”, argues Matt Taibbi: “there is no such thing as a universal human experience, and we are defined not by our individual personalities or moral choices, but only by our racial category”. White Fragility is based upon the idea that human beings are incapable of judging each other by […]
White Fragility Training and Freedom of Belief
What happens, asks Helen Pluckrose, when an ideology holds that beliefs other than its own are harmful and oppressive of others, and fails to recognise that it too is a belief system in itself? It is essential that employers recognise that the concepts of Social Justice, whiteness, white privilege and white fragility all depend upon […]