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John McWhorter, the anti-antiracist

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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What Is Critical Race Theory?

The elect awoke people who were mean about it. I think of myself as woke in the meaning that it had about six or seven years ago. But there's a certain kind of person who feels that their hard leftest view is so very much the impregnable, unassailable truth. The idea is that power differentials are evil. They must be battled on all levels. That to look away from this is evil. And therefore, if somebody doesn't focus on that, then they deserve to be banished from society and treated with unspeakable contempt. It just won't do. That's not how a mature society can operate. Whell you just invoke critical race theory? What

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