Ep 32. John McWhorter: On Anti-racism, Victimhood, Testing, and Woke Language

05/05/2025 34 min
Ep 32. John McWhorter: On Anti-racism, Victimhood, Testing, and Woke Language

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Professor John McWhorter, author of "Woke Racism," argues that condescending leftist ideology hurts black people.We spoke a few years ago when few others were pushing back on those ideas. But I learned a lot from my half-hour interview with him, so here's our full discussion.For one, the Columbia linguist points out "Woke Racism" hurts black people in many ways: from treating them as incapable of logic, to calling for abolition of tests, to insisting that violent kids stay in schools.He says that all these ideas are propped by a religion-like ideology that "requires that you sequester your brain for illogical thinking."...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lz4B2DinKuE

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