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[–]BEB 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Have you heard of the Intellectual Dark Web? From my understanding, it's liberal-type people - liberal in the classic sense - with some conservatives mixed in, now questioning Wokeness.

Not sure which of these "Intellectual Dark Web"-type media outlets have comment sections but some do: Quillette , UnHerd.com, https://uncommongroundmedia.com

Twitter - start with

James Lindsay https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames

Colin Wright https://twitter.com/SwipeWright

You can see which of their followers you like.

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

also Dave Rubin, if we're counting those who "self-ID" as IDW :)

Currently reading Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay's Cynical Theories. Still in the 'literature review' early sections of the book, wondering whether they'll address sex-based oppression as legit or downplay it.

[–]BEB 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I saw Dave Rubin on Fox News last year (I was taking care of elderly relatives) saying something along the lines of Americans needed to gather with their families for Thanksgiving or fascism wins (I'm exaggerating), so will probably never listen to him without a healthy dose of skepticism.

However, that's the way I feel about everyone.

Pluckrose and Lindsay do address sex-based oppression, although I don't know if they do in that book. However, Lindsay, who can be really nuts on Twitter, seems to me to actually be more sensitive to women's plights.

Pluckrose seems to be having a running battle with GC feminists, and even though she seems to get sex-based oppression, she seems to think she's above it. Arrogant, IMO.

[–]jjdub7Gay Male Guest Commentator 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah, I know Helen is more the "media" arm of their anti-grievance movement with her work at Areo, IIRC editing New Discourses, and she spearheaded the publication of the Sokal2 papers.

James seems to function more as the layman's ambassador/evangelist to try and awake-pill the sleeping normie masses to the mental prion disease that is post-modernism.

Dave...well I've got a soft spot for Dave 🤤