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John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

Is There Something There?

I worry about racial essentialism, i too worry about this idea that our race defines us. And i do also worry that the abstractions have become disconnected or are increasingly distant from the they claim to represent. I mean, is it really nothing but a virtue signalling an an performativity do you see in an earnest attempt to change minds? It's clear that he's just not allowed to apologize. This was a class for undergraduates. The graduate students in the department were reaching out to the undergrads. That won't do. Maybe that guy should be told these days, are you going to show even sir lawrence olivier and blackface in the 19 fifties,.

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