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  • The Counterweight Handbook

  • Principled Strategies for Surviving and Defeating Critical Social Justice Ideology - at Work, in Schools and Beyond
  • By: Helen Pluckrose
  • Narrated by: Helen Pluckrose
  • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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The Counterweight Handbook

By: Helen Pluckrose
Narrated by: Helen Pluckrose
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Over the last several years, organisations and institutions throughout the West - both public and private - have adopted comprehensive diversity and inclusion policies and new forms of employee and student training on antiracism, unconscious bias, gender diversity, cultural sensitivity and other related topics. The stated goals of these programs are often reasonable if not noble - to create a more welcoming space and inclusive environment for all. But such training, when based on the activist ideology known as Critical Social Justice, crosses a clear line when participants are required to affirm beliefs they do not hold. The mildest questions about or objections to common teachings in the sessions - that all white people are racists, that all underrepresented minorities are oppressed or useful tools of the majority, that sex and gender differences have no biological basis - are regularly met with pat commands: 'Educate yourself,' 'Do the work,' 'Listen and learn.'

At work, raises, promotions and even future employment may well depend on nodding approval during such training. At school, grades, nominations and awards may be contingent upon active agreement with these ideological beliefs. When faced with such a predicament - between silent submission and risky if ethical opposition - what is a person to do?

The Counterweight Handbook provides individuals with a practical and easily navigable guide to understanding and addressing the issues that are likely to arise when this activist ideology is implemented in their organisation or institution. It also teaches them what to do when they are being expected to affirm their commitment to beliefs they simply do not hold, undergo training in an illiberal ideology they cannot support, or submit themselves to antiscientific testing and retraining of their 'unconscious' minds. It is for everyone who wishes to push back against the hostile work and educational environments such training inevitably creates - or who fears being fired, censored or cancelled for their deeply held beliefs and principled convictions.

©2024 Helen Pluckrose (P)2024 Swift Press Audio
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Finally a practical handbook!

What to do when meeting WOKE colleagues / institutions and an aggressive anti-freedom ideology at work, at home, and how to stop the spread of these radical ideas.

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The narration is hard to listen to. The voice too monotonous. Such a shame. Could be so much better if read professionaly.

The content so far is very well written and interesting. I am sure this helps those in need if they read it

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