The Michael Shermer Show

165. John McWhorter — The Elect: Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and Their Threat to a Progressive America

Mar 16, 2021

01:20:43

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Is There a Reparation?

05:56

The Right Upper Income Bracket Tax Rate

05:19

Is There a Wealth Gap Between Whites and Blacks?

03:14

Introduction

6min

World's Languages in 25 25

2min

Are We Going to End Up With Less Languages?

2min

Your New Title Is the Elect

4min

Anti Black, Anti Racism

5min

Is There a Reparation?

6min

Why Are There So Few Black Oboists?

2min

Is There a Wealth Gap Between Whites and Blacks?

3min

The Right Upper Income Bracket Tax Rate

5min

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Are You a Racist?

3min

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The Black Body

2min

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What Does It Mean to Be Black?

4min

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I Think the Cop Issue Is the Issue.

6min

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The Law of Large Numbers - Race Matters

3min

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The Law of Large Numbers - Is That Really the Policy?

4min

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How to Get Out of a Copse Ticket

2min

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The Nuclear Family

2min

18.

The American Experiment

4min

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Is There a Moral Argument for Reparations?

4min

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Are We Going to Have a Second Round of Reparations?

4min

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Ydrama

2min

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You Can't Escape These Idiologies

2min

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The Transgender Issue

3min

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Is the Pendulum Swing Going to Swing?

1min

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.