The elect book is a funny story, because i wrote it as a kind of creed occur this summer. I just became disgusted by various things being said and done,. A book just jumped out of me in about two months. And so i wanted the message to get out while it was fresh. But this means that i'm releasing it in this mutable form where i can see what it looks like on the page. It's a new way of writing a book, in that when it is a physical book, it's going to be better than it was when i basically wrote it at a bungalow colony in between sessions with my kids.
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.