num_pages: 248
description: This is a book about ideas. Specifically this is a book about the evolution of a certain set of ideas and how these ideas have come to dominate every important discussion about race gender and identity today. Have you heard someone refer to language as literal violence or say that science is sexist? Or declare that being obese is healthy or that there is no such thing as biological sex? Or that valuing hard work individualism and even punctuality is evidence of white supremacy? Or that only certain peopledepending on their race gender or identityshould be allowed to wear certain clothes or hairstyles cook certain foods write certain characters or play certain roles? If so then youve encountered these ideas. As this reader-friendly adaptation of the internationally acclaimed bestseller Cynical Theories explains however the truth is that many of these ideas are recent inventions are not grounded in scientific fact and do not account for the sheer complexity of social reality and human experience. In fact these beliefs often deny and even undermine the very principles on which liberal democratic societies are builtthe very ideas that have allowed for unprecedented human progress lifted standards of living across the world and given us the opportunity and right to consider and debate these ideas in the first place! Ultimately this is a book about what it truly means to have a just and equal societyand how best to get there.Cynical Theories is a Wall Street Journal USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller. Named a 2020 Book of the Year by The Times Sunday Times and Financial Times it is being translated into more than fifteen languages.
language: English
title: Social (In)justice: Why Many Popular Answers to Important Questions of Race, Gender, and Identity Are Wrong--and How to Know What's Right: A Reader-Friendly Remix of Cynical Theories
publisher: Pitchstone Publishing