" The authors do not belittle these struggels, but emphazise that they are apainful consequence of the accceptance of three "Great Untruth". These are the belief that people are fragile ("Anything that doesn't kill you makes you weaker"), the belief in emotional reasoning ("Always trust your instinct") and the belief in Us versus Them ("Life is a battle between good people and evil people "). "

― Helen Pluckrose , Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody