How Can We Make the Kids Erat the Test?

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I'm always fascinated when two positions within broad ideology either imply each other and ae ignored, orstand against each other. I've spoken about as performed as podcast when it comes to free speech. It's really strange for the same actoists who say that all of america is wil to premises and re power structure is deeply biased against people of colour to also say they want facebook and twitter to be able to choose who they censore. Because you might think, in a society af sipuites or premises, people wh are going to be censuring are not necessarily going to be on the right side.

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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