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The resources listed here have been recommended by members of the Counterweight community and represent a diverse range of views. We hope you find them useful in understanding more about Critical Social Justice ideology. Select a topic to view sources on this subject.

Understanding Critical Social Justice Examples of Critical Social Justice in Action Reviews of Critical Social Justice Texts Implicit Association Testing, Unconscious Bias Training and Anti-Racism Training Tools for Addressing Critical Social Justice Alternatives to Critical Social Justice Training Critical Social Justice in Education and Teaching Critical Social Justice in Universities and Colleges Critical Social Justice and Mental Health Critical Social Justice and Gender Black Lives Matter Movement Free Speech and Cancel Culture

○ Jonathan Church 2020: ‘The Truth According to Social Justice – A Review of “Cynical Theories.”’
○ Helen Dale 2020: ‘Reality has been Cancelled.’
○ Xin Du 2020: ‘The origins of the “white privilege” myth.’
○ Promise Frank Ejiofor 2020: ‘The new colour line.’
○ James Lindsay 2020: ‘A First-Amendment Case for Freedom from the Woke Religion.’
○ James Lindsay 2020: ‘Eight Big Reasons Critical Race Theory is Terrible for Dealing with Racism.’
○ James Lindsay 2020: ‘The Diversity Delusion.’
○ James Lindsay 2020: ‘Why Nobody is Systemically Racist.’
○ James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose 2020: ‘A Beginner’s Curriculum on Critical Race theory.’
○ James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose 2020: ‘The fightback against “cancel culture” starts with understanding its deep roots.’
○ James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose 2020: ‘The Two Big Falsehoods of Critical Social Justice.’
○ Kenan Malik 2020: A thread on white privilege and racism.
○ Helen Pluckrose 2020: ‘Is Critical Race Theory racist?’
○ Helen Pluckrose 2019: ‘What Social Justice Gets Right.’
○ Helen Pluckrose 2019: ‘Why the social justice Left is doubling down.’
○ Helen Pluckrose (New Discourses) 2020: ‘The Evolution of Postmodern Thought.’
○ Helen Pluckrose 2020: ‘White Fragility Training and Freedom of Belief.’
○ Andrew Sullivan 2020: ‘The Roots of Wokeness.’
○ Ilana Redstone 2021: ‘A Straightforward Primer On Critical Race Theory (and Why It Matters)’

Arts and Museums

○ Spiked Editorial 2020: ‘Now the British Library has gone woke.’
○ Tanya Autry 2015: ‘Social Justice and Museums Resource List.’

James Damore – Google

○ James Damore 2017: ‘Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber.’
○ Nalina Eggert 2017: ‘Was Google wrong to fire James Damore after memo controversy?’
○ Paul Lewis 2017: ‘”I see things differently”: James Damore on his autism and the Google memo.’

Evergreen

○ Shaun Cammack 2020: ‘The Evergreen Affair: A Social Justice Society.’</br /> ○ James Lindsay, Mike Nayna and Helen Pluckrose 2020: ‘Teaching to Transgress: Rage and Entitlement at Evergreen College.’
○ James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose 2020: ‘The Influence of Anti-Racist Scholarship-Activism on Evergreen College.’

General Critical Race Theory

○ Ben Habib 2020: ‘I am not BAME.’
○ Christopher Rufo 2020: ‘Seattle City Council moves to abolish the entire Seattle Police Department.’
○ Christopher Rufo 2020: ‘Seattle Office of Civil Rights’ Training on “Internalized Racial Superiority for White People.”’
○ Spiked Editorial 2020: ‘Seattle has fallen to woke racism.’

Politics

○ Eleni Courea 2020: ‘MPs will be made to take anti-racist training at work.’
○ Justin Elderman 2020: ‘The BLM takeover of Whitehall.’
○ Casey Peterson 2020: ‘Pushing Back on the Narrative of Modern Systemic Racism and White Privilege.’
○ Christopher Rufo 2020: Sandia Labs Thread 1.
○ Christopher Rufo 202: Sandia Labs Thread 2.

Sex and Gender

○ John Holbrook 2019: ‘Maya Forstater: a champion of democracy.’
○ James Kirkup 2019: ‘The document that reveals the remarkable tactics of trans lobbyists.’
○ James Kirkup 2020: ‘Was this journalist sacked for saying “Sex is binary?”’
○ Andrew Tettenborn 2020: ‘Do you have to be woke to be a police officer?’

Lindsey Shepherd

○ Scott Jaschik 2017: ‘The Interrogation of a TA.’
○ Lindsay Shepherd 2017: ‘FULL RECORDING Lindsay Shepherd Interrogated by Wilfrid Laurier Universitys Gender Police.’

Shut Down STEM and the Sciences

○ Gabriel Andrade 2020: ‘How “Indigenous Ways of Knowing” Works in Venezuela.’
○ DarkHorse Podcast Clips 2020: ‘#ShutDownSTEM and Oxford university.’
○ DarkHorse Podcast Clips 2020: ‘What are the goals of #ShutDownSTEM?’
○ Luana Maroja 2019: ‘Self-Censorship on Campus is Bad for Science.’
○ Colin Wright 2020: ‘Think Cancel Culture Doesn’t Exist? My Own “Lived Experience” Says Otherwise.’
○ Heather Mac Donald 2020: ‘Woke Science Is an Experiment Certain to Fail.’

Universities

○ Stuart Chambers 2020: ‘Systemic Racism on Campus? The Cautionary Tale of Joanne St. Lewis v. Denis Rancourt.’
○ Conference on College Composition and Communication 2020: ‘This Ain’t Another Statement! This is a DEMAND for Black Linguistic Justice!’
○ Cornell Faculty Coalition 2020: ‘Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff for an Anti-Racist Cornell, 2020 Demands.’
○ Andrew Tettenborn 2020: ‘Will segregation come to King’s College London?’
○ Justin Lee 2020: ‘Christian college fires professor for warning against hate with “Little Hitler” song.’
○ University of Washington: ‘Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – Tools for evaluating applicants.’

○ John McWhorter 2020: ‘The Better of the Two Big Antiracism Bestsellers.’
○ John McWhorter 2020: ‘The Dehumanizing Condescension of White Fragility.’
○ Kelefah Sanneh 2019: ‘The Fight to Redefine Racism.’
○ Matt Taibbi 2020: ‘On “White Fragility.”’

○ Musa al-Gharbi 2020: ‘Diversity-Related Training: What Is It Good For?’
○ Daniel Bergner 2020: ‘”White Fragility” Is Everywhere. But Does Antiracism Training Work?’
○ Peter Bregman 2012: ‘Diversity Training Doesn’t Work.’
○ Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic 2020: ‘Implicit Bias Training Doesn’t Work.’
○ Tom Chivers 2020: ‘Can you really teach kids not to be racist? Someone thought it a good idea to force children to undergo dubious “implicit bias” training, and film it.’
○ Frank Dobbin and Alexandra Kalev 2016: ‘Why Diversity Programs Fail.’
○ Lloyd Evans 2020: ‘Racial sensitivity training turned me into a confused racist.’
○ Lewis Feilder 2020: ‘The dangers of unconscious bias training.’
○ Nick Gillespie 2020: ‘Diversity Training Isn’t Just Expensive, It’s Counterproductive.’
○ Olivia Goldhill 2017: ‘The world is relying on a flawed psychological test to fight racism.’
○ Jennifer Gutsell, Michael Inzlicht and Lisa Legault 2011: ‘Ironic Effects of Antiprejudice Messages: How Motivational Interventions Can Reduce (but Also Increase) Prejudice.’ Psychological Science
○ holly math nerd 2020: ‘How to Game the IAT.’
○ Martin Kaste 2020: ‘NYPD Study: Implicit Bias Training Changes Minds, Not Necessarily Behaviour.’
○ Paul Keaveny 2020: ‘Why diversity training on campus is likely to disappoint.’
○ Betsy Mason 2020: ‘Making people aware of their implicit biases doesn’t usually change minds. But here’s what does work.’
○ David Rock 2017: ‘Is Your Company’s Diversity Training Making You More Biased?’
○ Jesse Singal 2017: ‘Psychology’s Racism Measuring Tool Isn’t Up to the Job.’
○ Jesse Singal 2018: ‘Psychology’s favorite tool for measuring implicit bias is still mired in controversy.’
○ Robby Soave 2020: ‘UConn Will Pay White Fragility Author Robin DiAngelo $20,000 To Train School Administrators.’
○ Robert E. Worden et al. 2020: ‘The Impacts of Implicit Bias Awareness Training in the NYPD.’

○ Musa al-Gharbi 2020: ‘You’ve Been Mandated to Do Ineffective Training. Now What?’
○ Lisa Bildy 2020: ‘They Can’t Cancel All of Us: How we Fought the Woke Thought Police and Won.’
○ Preston Byrne 2020: ‘Anti-Cancellation Clauses: corporate timeouts for the digital age.’
○ Chrissy Clark 2020: ‘Black Activists Create New Curriculum to Counter 1619 Project.’
○ Andrew Doyle 2020: ‘We need to be braver.’
○ Inside White Fragility 2020: ‘A Practical Guide to Surviving Anti-Racism Trainings.’
○ George R. La Noue 2020: ‘Critical Race Training or Civil Rights Law: We Can’t Have Both.’
○ James Lindsay 2020: ‘A Principled Statement of Opposition to Critical Race Theory.’
○ James Lindsay 2020: ‘A Template for Resisting White Fragility in the Workplace.’
○ James Lindsay 2020: ‘Saying No to Critical Race Theory.’
○ James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose 2020: ‘How to be Not-Racist.’
○ James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose 2020: ‘How to Talk to Your Employers About Anti-Racism.’
○ David Randall 2020: ‘Cease and resist: how to fight the illiberal left.’
○ Alison Reynolds and David Lewis 2017: ‘Teams Solve Problems Faster When They’re More Cognitively Diverse.’
○ David Scullion 2020: ‘What to do when you’ve been cancelled.’
○ Twitter Thread 2020: ‘A How to Guide to Navigating Your Child’s Teacher in a Critical Theory/Anti-Racism World.’
○ Twitter Thread 2020: ‘So Your Child’s Teacher Is Woke: Suggestions On How To Navigate An Educator Who Operates In Critical Theory.’

Coming Soon

○ Andrew Doyle 2020: ‘Now that BLM has gone mainstream our children are being brainwashed by a divisive new dogma that I fear will stoke, not heal, racial tensions.’
○ Andrew Doyle 2020: ‘The mark of an educated mind.’
○ Samantha Hedges 2020: ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in K-12 Professional Development: The Mission Versus the Reality.’
○ Frederick M. Hess 2020: ‘”Anti-Racist” education is anything but.’
○ Asra Nomani 2020: ‘Merit on the Ropes.’
○ Naomi Schaefer Riley 2020: ‘My Kids and Their Elite Education in Racism’
○ Luke Rosiak 2020: ‘What are they learning?’ (Parents’ accounts of CRT in schools)
○ Teachwell 2020: ‘Teacher Political Neutrality and Other Relevant Matters.’
○ Twitter Thread 2020: ‘A How to Guide to Navigating Your Child’s Teacher in a Critical Theory/Anti-Racism World.’
○ Twitter Thread 2020: ‘So Your Child’s Teacher Is Woke: Suggestions On How To Navigate An Educator Who Operates In Critical Theory.’

○ Sergiu Klainerman 2020: ‘Princeton’s President Is Wrong. The University Is Not Systemically Racist.’
○ Fraser Myers 2020: ‘Finally, woke “racists” are being held to account.’
○ Tobias Phibbs 2020: ‘Confessions of a student Marxist.’
○ Princeton Letter 2020: (Response to Princeton’s claim to be systemically racist)

○ Karlyn Borysenko 2020: ‘The American Psychological Association has gone full woke. Psychology is a tool of white supremacy.’
○ Critical Therapy Antidote – Mental health professionals against critical theory.
○ Kirsty Miller 2020: ‘The Role That Social Psychology Has Played in Creating Our Divided World.’
○ Quillette Magazine 2019: ‘Twelve Scholars Respond to the APA’s Guidance for Treating Men and Boys.’
○ Geoffrey Miller 2017: ‘The Neurodiversity Case for Free Speech.’

○ Helen Pluckrose 2017: ‘How to Tell If You’re Living in a Patriarchy: A Historical Perspective.’
○ James Lindsay and Helen Pluckrose 2018: ‘The Pendulum Need Not Swing: Why Gender Roles are Not the Answer to Blank Slatism.’

○ Andrew Doyle 2020: ‘We need to talk about Black Lives Matter.’
○ Katy Grimes 2020: ‘UC Berkeley History Professor’s Open Letter Against BLM, Police Brutality and Cultural Orthodoxy.
○ Sahil Handa 2020: ‘Why I Refuse to “Educate Myself”.’
○ Chuck Lovell 2020: ‘I’m the Police Chief in Portland. Violence Isn’t the Answer.’
○ Spiked Editorial 2020: ‘Five myths peddled by Black Lives Matter.’
○ Spiked Editorial 2020: ‘Black Lives Matter does not own ethnic minorities.’
○ Rabid Ehsan et al. 2020: ‘Black Lives Matter UK: An Anthology.’

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○ Lincoln 2019: ‘The State of Viewpoint Inclusion in The Tech Industry.’
○ Fraser Nelson 2020: ‘The Spectator, the Co-op and cancel culture – a cautionary tale.’
○ Michael Powell 2020: ‘A Black Marxist Scholar Wanted to Talk About Race. It Ignited a Fury.’
○ Kyle Smith 2020: ‘Ridiculous trigger warning for “Blazing Saddles” shows how far culture has gone off rails.’
○ Thomas Chatterton Williams 2020: ‘A Game of Chance.’
○ Toby Young 2020: ‘The proof that free speech in universities is in peril.’”