BOOKSHOP BARNIE: Helen Pluckrose on "The Counterweight Handbook"

Quillette magazine says that this book provides resources for "parents whose child comes home from school spouting genderwoo, for junior academics expected to write DEI statements in job and grant applications, and for professional networks who want to organise joint opposition to critical social justice.” In other words, it is a modern survival handbook.

Helen is a liberal humanist writer and commentator with a background in late medieval women's religious writing. She now focuses primarily on challenging postmodernism and Critical Social Justice activism and their negative effects on the humanities and the political left. Together with James Lindsay and Peter Boghossian, she took part in the "Grievance Studies Affair" that exposed the problems with so-called scholarship in identity/cultural studies. She was the editor-in-chief of Areo magazine..

Based on the author’s years of experience studying, exposing and campaigning for a liberal political understanding of inter alia, the rise of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programmes and how they impose their principles and punish dissent. The Counterweight Handbook is designed to help people address Critical Social Justice problems in the most ethical and effective way possible.

You do not have to have read the book in advance, but copies are available here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Counterweight-Handbook-Principled-Strategies-Surviving/dp/1800751087/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_pl_foot_top?ie=UTF8

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