Quillette and Think Inc. present the fourth and final Free Thought Live online live event for 2020 with liberal humanist, cultural and political writer, editor-in-chief of Areo, and most recently the co-author of the wildly successful book Cynical Theories: Helen Pluckrose. The event will be held at 10:00 AM on Saturday 19 December 2020.
Helen will investigate how “Critical Social Justice” is a twisted version of postmodern ideas and how popular concepts of “wokeness” ignore the nuances of social issues and paint people with a brush they often don’t resonate with.
“… black people are politically and intellectually diverse… many women reject intersectional concepts of feminism, few LGBT people have even read queer theory, the majority of trans people just want to be left alone to live as feels authentic, and most obese and disabled people have no wish to take this aspect of themselves on as a political identity.” – Helen Pluckrose, An Interview with Jason D. Hill
In celebrating poorly rationalised notions that are made popular based on feelings rather than facts, bad ideas are allowed to thrive and gain momentum rather than die a natural death. Helen seeks to inject science, reason and liberalism back into social discourse, providing a cure for the “broad stroke” concepts that dominate so many of today’s discussions.
Her fear is that by pushing too far to the left without a foundation rooted in sound reasoning, the extreme right are finding a louder voice and are threatening to roll back the amazing advancements made for gender, racial and LGBT equality.
Maligned by both the far left and the far right, Helen defines herself as a leftist on a mission to fix her ideological base. Quillette is proud to present Helen Pluckrose for a conversation on how to make liberalism, humanism, science and reason the core values of society once again.
This event is brought to you by Claire Lehmann, CEO of the digital magazine Quillette, and Suzi Jamil, CEO of touring company Think Inc. International markets can bring attractive opportunities to businesses that are able to innovate and adapt to changing environments. Two such businesses include Think Inc. and Quillette—two companies which have responded to the challenges posed by COVID-19 by partnering and thinking creatively about new opportunities.
Claire and Suzi hope that Free Thought Live will be a refreshing change from the partisan shouting matches that have become all too familiar in our online environments.
While both founders share something important in common—their gender—they also share a similar mission in wanting to bring fair-minded conversations about challenging topics to the world. Think Inc. has been at the forefront of the deep and meaningful development of idea generation in Australia and New Zealand over the past seven years. Similarly, Quillette has exported nuanced longform commentary from Australia’s shores since 2015. A clear vision based on values provide the basis not only for each company’s success, but for their online events series Free Thought Live.
Please join Quillette in collaboration with Think Inc, and in partnership with the Judith Nielsen Institute by registering for Free Thought Live with Helen Pluckrose now.
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