"If these sorts of things are going to be pushed as hard as they've been, especially since roughly last spring, then it's time to start speaking up," he says. "You can't quite call me a racist, but you can say that i don't like black people and that i hate myself." He adds: 'There are really almost no black people who don't like other black people'
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.