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#390 - John McWhorter - How Does Anti-Racism Hurt Black People?

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Is Awake Racism a Religion?

Anti-racism is a religion because it's allowed to proceed without addressing logic, he says. People who are wok racists treat people who don't agree with them as if they were heretics,. That's exactly the sentiment. And so that automatically makes the stray white cop interesting, and it turns your head away from the murders being committed in much greater numbers by people within undeserved communities. The fact that if you bring that up to people, they get irritated, that there's a belief system that it's incommensurate with. It's not that somebody like me is missing something. Any ten year old could figure it out. But yet, you're treated, and this

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