There is an illiberal ideology afoot. These people are annoying, and it's as they are hosting an illiberal idiology. That to me, sounds like its time for forums and seminares. If we're talking about the hard core, this is my psychology,. This is my comfort zone kind of belief that absolutely won't change. You're not going to have a seminar where you try to approach people's religion. It encourages people to think this as a current in intellectual history. A lot of those movements in the past eventually faded away. Here and now, i'm thinking on my feet, and i may do it wrong here, i don't see it fading until racial
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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