Is the Angelicanism a Religion?

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Qqovewok, or the angelicanism, in a literal way, as a kind of new religion. If you think of this as a religion, everything that these people do is perfectly understandable. These people can seem quite unreasonable, but theyre not, is the thing. Their imperviousness to reason about racism is exactly like t a certain kind of religious person who feels, for example, that jesus loves them.

John McWhorter is an author, a member of the Persuasion Board of Advisors, a Columbia University linguist, and a columnist for The New York Times. His latest book, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America, argues that we must understand wokeness, quite literally, as a religion.

In this week’s conversation, John McWhorter and Yascha Mounk discuss the nature of today’s social progressivism, whether it constitutes a religion, and how we can actually help to reduce racial disparities in the United States.

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