A lot of this seems to be driven by white people. Now, they don't want to be victims. That's not sotof the position they have within this particular discourse. So what is the attraction of tit to the highly educated, affluent, urban people who are vastly over proportionl represented among the category of so called progressive actovists? The oddest thing. It's something no one would predict. Although i think, based on what's happened in the united states, other nations ought to take a look at what happened here. And talk about how things go overboard. People will start using it to be mean to one another. Some people will use it as a blud
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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