You Can't Escape These Idiologies

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Gersa: I'm worried about your kid's going off to school and learning this stuff. Yos yes. What scares me is that my daughters are half white. And it used to be that if they were the color they are, then it was pretty safe that they were going to have to classify themselves as black. Now we talk about people being by racial it's a very high brid country. Gersa: Maybe one of them will listen to me, but maybe the other one will be more of a joiner. Ye e.

Dr. Shermer speaks with John McWhorter about his new online book on how the antiracism movement poses a threat to progressive America. Shermer and McWhorter discuss: antiracism as a religion; the 3 waves of antiracism; the antiracism trinity: Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robin DiAngelo, Ibram X. Kendi; white fragility; Black Lives Matter; systemic racism (incarceration rates, housing, jobs, income, etc.); reparations; George Floyd, Tony Timpa and police violence; the N-word and language as violence; and Third Wave Antiracism catechism.