# 27 James Lindsay - Critical Theory, Fat Activism, and Social Justice Warriors

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[1:50] - Candice and James Lindsay discuss James’ background and his history with the NYT Best Sellers list

[5:14] - Standing against the mainstream narrative. James describes how he fell “ass backwards” into being someone who fights for truth. James describes how he came to be involved what would later be known as the “Grievance studies affair.”

[11:46] - James says he personally predicted what he calls a cultural revolution and warned state officials about it. He goes on to say that the papers he helped author predicted that universities would continue to double down and not “ever step back from the ledge,” predicting that universities would hit a budget crisis and double down into “diversity administration.”

[13:45] - Title IX consequences and how repealing Trump administration policies will result in consequences for how campus assault accusations are handled.

[24:39] - Lives can be ruined by false accusations.

[27:58] - Twitter censorship.

[28:47] - Do you think language can be violent?

[48:44] - “when you don’t compromise on the standard but offer extra support to get someone over the hump, clearly that’s helping.”

[49:40] - “money doesn’t have a race”

[56:37] - “Weirdo professors at universities” is the prevailing myth about college but it couldn’t be further from the truth.

[59:55] - White Guilt discussion

[1:04:35] - Remembering Trump’s election night and how critical race theorists seized on that election to push an agenda.

[1:06:06] - “I have family members who won’t talk to me anymore”

[1:06:32] - “Black Lives Matter” is a clever name because it’s a statement and a fact and they’re using that against us. Very few people would disagree with the sentence, of course they do. Critics aren’t saying that statement isn’t true, but stating that it’s against getting rid of police and prisons… which is to what kind of country do you think we’ll have without structure… order.

[1:10:33] - What’s the breaking point?

[1:15:14] - “There’s a huge problem when you define yourself by things you can’t change, like you can’t change your skin color and I don’t think that should determine any bit of you… There are good people and bad people on all spectrums it doesn’t matter about race, or gender, or belief system… I had people who were saying ‘how could you, a woman, with minority parents, and also the porn factor, how can you be anything but the extreme left.’ I’m like that has nothing to do with policies… Donald Trump doesn’t say things with finesse… but we didn’t have a lot of good options. There’s a bigger problem than the man who has been in office the last four years, there are career politicians who have been in office their whole lives and still we’re about to be in a civil war, and I don’t think that’s hyperbolic. We have people who are storming the capital and people who are setting cities on fire.”

[1:31:10] - Candice’s pet theory about information being released about UFO’s.

[1:38:08] - Robert J Lifton “thought stopping techniques” and the rise of totalitarianism.