A Conversation with John McWhorter | Viewpoint Diversity among Black Intellectuals

Listen to John McWhorter (@JohnHMcWhorter) speak with Amna Khalid (@AmnaUncensored) about viewpoint diversity among Black intellectuals, the state of open inquiry in higher education today, and his new book: The Elect: Neoracists posing as antiracists and their threat to a progressive America.
McWhorter is Associate Professor of English and comparative literature at Columbia University. He is the author of over a dozen books on issues including race and language. His most recent book, “The Creole Debate and Talking Back, Talking Black,” was published in 2018 by Cambridge University Press. He has written countless articles and commentaries that have appeared in The Atlantic, Reason, The New Republic, Aeon, and many more. He also hosts Slate’s language podcast Lexicon Valley.
McWhorter is the winner of HxA’s 2020 Open Inquiry Award for Leadership.
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[@cooltx75]

John McWhorter has to be one of the most brilliant, thoughtful, articulate and erudite people alive in the world today. I can listen to him talk all day.

[@jromeo6748]

Exactly what I was thinking.

[@liverpoolmary2860]

Me too

[@peterhardie4151]

He is good at listening too.

[@akeithing1841]

I contend that the democrat party does not allow his thinking. Biden would guess he couldn't get online for this

[@kathleenwoollcott4750]

A very wise man indeed!

[@lisawilliams8391]

"We dont want the Elect to leave the room, we just want them to sit back down" excellent!!

[@Featherfinder]

The brilliant John McWhorter is a hero of mine. If he wanted to sell out he could make a great deal of money and become a lauded celebrity prof appearing on late night talk shows. Instead he consistently faces rejection and exclusion because he is committed to actual truth and actual justice for all people. What a beautiful man ❤️

[@themeadowlarkminutewithpau8184]

He’s an absolute hero to me as well. Love that guy. Just a beautiful mind and beautiful human being.

[@machtnichtsseimann]

Agree. I've often used the same terminology as you, i.e. "actual" justice. John is one of the few who contributes to it. Many in Academia seemingly do not.

[@burleybater]

@@machtnichtsseimann Agreed as well. The online conversations between John McWhorter and Glenn Loury have become, if not a cornerstone of my further education on matters of race, a much-needed sanctuary in which to bask in that much of concerted intelligence and wisdom all at once.

[@machtnichtsseimann]

@@burleybater - They model civility, courage and a gentlemen's disagreement, if you will, when they diverge from each other. Honestly, true friends ought to take notes from these two academics as they traverse one of THE hot topics in America...still.

[@pityroidconglutinate7929]

brilliantly put. There is serious money to be made in lying, treachery and treason. some are not for sale, as truthfulness is so precious that it should never be bought out. congratulations to john mcworter and thomas sowell for refusing huge paychecks to be truthful

[@galaxytrio]

Listening to John McWhorter is a refreshing antidote to the thick confusion and mendacity we're living in. He says what many (most?) of us recognize to be true, but haven't been able to articulate. Thank you, John. You help keep me from dispair.

[@ondolite3789]

🙄

[@RealRavi]

I had to look up “mendacity”

[@dvoulio]

very very well said.. ! ( and now I know what "mendacity" means ! )

[@BartAnderson_writer]

McWhorter is articulate and reasonable. That he is controversial is a comment on our crazy times. His proposals for change at 55:00 are about what a liberal Democrat would have said in the 60s. Ironic that the interviewer said he sounded like a Marxist!

[@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017]

Clear thinking and/or clear statement of fact is itself a crime today. We are headed for very dark times indeed.

[@SmallBobby]

I wonder why she used the term Marxist. When I think of marxism, I think of the destruction of classes and all forms of oppression, and nothing he proposed at that time stamp sounds anything related to classism or oppression.

[@megg.6651]

McWhorter saying "bullshit" made my day!!

[@comeandreasontogether2383]

At what minute?

[@strauss77b89]

15.10

[@johnmcclellan9020]

This guy I admire. What a brave man.

[@ondolite3789]

An absolute coward actually.

[@aprilscales4683]

His point on people reading Diangelo and saying that it is work made me laugh. "What the hell kind of work is that?" That's the kind of "work" I see my peers in my msw program doing and I often find myself flabbergasted and thinking the same thing as John.

[@RCCarDude]

White Fragility is a weird mirror image of White Man's Burden, except in the case of WF, there is no uplifting but rather "make space, don't contradict". It's a really disgusting, demoralizing, and dehumanizing worldview. It's indefensible.

[@comeandreasontogether2383]

At what minute do they discuss this?

[@groovecouple4644]

Haha Robin DiAngelo...couldn’t pay me to read her....

[@tobynsaunders]

I hope to buy one of John's book so that he may one day be able to afford curtains. Joking aside, thanks for the interview, Heterodox Academy.

[@darrenmiller6927]

Mchorter is just a flat out great American. Yes one the great black minds of our day, but one of our greatest minds period, stacked with the best we have- of any color.

[@paulweeldreyer7457]

I think that what Mr McWhorter said about these attitudes holding back blacks makes sense. Does racism still exist? Yes. Is it healthy to tell young black kids that everyone is against them and they're set up to fail? Does that attitude help them achieve and thrive? No. Why would you want to condition kids to feel like they're bound to fail? Terrible message to them. I hope that men like Mcwhorter and Loury win these ideological battles.

[@CC-xs3jf]

Yes, I find the messaging to children to be especially destructive and heartbreaking. And in most cases a vicious lie that hurts everyone.

[@wescolumbus621]

Shouldn't Black women (eg, Inaya Folarin Inman, Ayaan Hirsi Ali) too, be encouraged to think for themselves without the dogma of another Race "Theory" and embraced when they do? That is, though the opposite side of the coin, but similarly concocted by bored (German) academicians, hasn't the Arian-Semitic Race "Theory" inflicted enough societal damage?

[@jaed2630]

I never understood. "Does racism exist? Yes" statements. Because when we talk about racism we solely put it on the shoulders of white ppl. I grew up in a predominantly black city where I had seen multiple cases of anti white racism. Not a newspaper nor a march or a book given to talk about THOSE THINGS. Because this racism conversation is and has been, a nonsensical bs argument by activist that are, intellectual lazy, power hungry problem makers. They organize to cause grievance and resentment amongst minority groups. And ppl like me and others are sick of it

[@ondolite3789]

Who is telling black children this?

[@ondolite3789]

@@CC-xs3jf What message? Black children report racism, on average, at age six. Stop being a beast.

[@GarryGolden]

John McWhorter doing a selfie angle - talking while walking set -- ending up next to a piano -- makes me more of a fan!! Thanks for great conversation!

[@listener523]

Absolute Chad move.

[@brucecaldwell6701]

Looks like he has quite a CD collection too. I seem to recall he said he's into jazz which makes him even more relatable in my book.

[@ricodelavega4511]

John is one sharp daddio- one of the sharpest tools in the box that is african american intellectual developers. He's also like a sharp crowbar, prying open with intellectual inquiry spaces through questions others don't dare voice. He's a cut above whats out there, especially including the intellectual lightweight Henry Louis Gates.

[@ATMyles]

Wow. Excellent, colorful comment. But with respect, I think you give Prof. Gates too little credit. Full disclosure: I’ve met and spoken with him. He was a regular at a restaurant at which I worked. He’s a character, but despite being a three-namer, he’s no Eric Michael Dyson, a huckster, Ta-Nehisi Coates or others. He’s legit. Also, I recall that he displayed grace and understanding during the infamous arrest debacle years ago. Excerpt below is from Wikipedia. We can all learn from this. During an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Gates stated that relations between him and Crowley are amicable. He also revealed that he asked Crowley for a sample of his DNA, and that he and Crowley are distant cousins and share a common Irish ancestor. On the show, Gates stated that Crowley recently gave him the handcuffs used in the arrest. When asked what he would do with the handcuffs, Gates stated that he plans to donate the handcuffs to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African American History and Culture. Gates later revealed during a National Press Club luncheon that he had met with Sgt Crowley for a beer prior to the Beer Summit at the suggestion of President Bill Clinton. Gates said that he was moved when Crowley told him "Professor, all I wanted was to go home to my wife at the end of the day." Gates further recounted that Crowley had feared that another black man had been upstairs who could at any moment have come down and killed him. Gates said this brought tears to his eyes as he understands fear and that ever since he and Crowley have been really good friends.

[@ATMyles]

@jolantru12 Hello. I see your point, believe me. It’s possible I’m giving him too much credit. He did initially overreact over what was a misunderstanding. (He is a bit pompous.) I wholeheartedly agree about the victim mentality, and that, as with Ferguson, Pres. Obama should not have gotten involved. These aren’t matters for the federal government. “The beer summit” struck me as theatrical, and of course, people ate it up - or drank it up in this case. Did you live Cambridge? I’m in Somerville!

[@ondolite3789]

Rubbish 🗑!

[@ondolite3789]

@@ATMyles He is EXTREMELY pompous.

[@THEspindoctor84]

"very few evil people exist, and almost no one is crazy." Wow, that's a great quote. Thank you!

[@keyboarddancers7751]

55:28 I love this man! Anybody with an expansive mind will understand my sentiment.

[@domin1ca]

Clear, powerful and honest take on race issues and the "new woke religion" in the academy. Thank you John McWhorter for your heterodox conversation on viewpoint diversity. Profound.

[@KAZVorpal]

"We've gone from Martin Luther King, to just Martin Luther". Absolutely brilliant. So great that he sorta tries to wave away any credit for its ingenuity. But he's effing ingenious.

[@llk3763]

This is why I truly love this man!

[@bettywilson5515]

Prof. Mcwhorter is just incredible. How I wish I would have had him when I was in college.

[@Brommear]

Yes, I can see that!

[@roderickmorrison]

Dr. McWhorter! My dear departed mother, who was a Grade 3 teacher of 30+ years, must be smiling to hear you call for teaching reading by phonics.

[@PresterMike]

Great great discussion! John is my guy Forreal! Brilliant man

[@JJ-he7yy]

An excellent podcast! Mr. McWhorter gives voice to what everyone is thinking but afraid to speak about. I would also add to his 4 principles, 1. Graduate High School, 2. Work full time 3. Get married, 4. Have children , and you will be middle Class - per the Brookings institution, I believe. you don't have to do the last 2, but if you are going to have children, it helps to be married.

[@cosmopessoa1556]

not a clue , look over here pal this fellow Mc Whorter does not appear to know or care to know of the long-lasting inherited damages that can be done to a people's psychic, its consequences when specific acts are forced on them. The results are devastating and predictable There are numerous methods used by Predatorial insects and human primates when attacking their own species and the methods are somewhat similar and highly destructive. The two principal methods used in combination to control a captured Group are physical and through the nervous system for insects, for humans its physical and through the subconscious mind. That battle rages on today!!!! Mc Whorter For humans controls its (A) intrinsic and extrinsic values (B) Controlling Values are the use of (1 Psychic Trauma ) (2 Territorial Imperative) (3 Paired Associate learning) This cocktail of physical and psychological imposition on humans culminates into self-hate, depression, self-oppression, psychological -trauma and finally individual self and group destruction. Most people from the oppressive groups will always go into Cognitive Dissonance, default to locking themselves into a fortress of self-denial when confronted with this social construct they had created.

[@ondolite3789]

Isn't McWhorter gay?

[@JJ-he7yy]

@@ondolite3789 Who cares?

[@ondolite3789]

@@JJ-he7yy How can he fucking get married if he is gay??! Or do you believe in gay marriage? Is that part of your 'conservative doctrine'? I do not care either but I do enjoy pointing out hypocrisy. Your movement reeks of it.

[@lovebaileymarin]

Wow, thank you for your work. I’ve been following John for a long time, I am grateful to have found your organization as well ✌️

[@kham6006]

I have a friend who’s son struggled w reading. They are a book friendly home , worked with him and his teacher , took him to a Phonics program and he reads great now ,, John knows

[@kkampy4052]

I'm almost 64 and had phonics books when I was a kid. Reading is one of my favorite things to do.

[@RCCarDude]

Phonics is truly the way to go. It teaches kids to read words they're unfamiliar with, something rote memorization can't.

[@TriteNight1218]

I didn’t realize kids don’t learn phonics anymore

[@beautifulrose8619]

Personally, I want my surgeon to be on time and precise.

[@Brommear]

And my pilot!

[@stmatthewsisland5134]

This is why I love John McWhorter he always manages to nail it @22.00 'we’ve gone from Martin Luther King to just Luther'

[@GregKingston]

Great conversation. John McWhorter gives me hope that academia might be salvageable.

[@evanprinsloo6412]

Amen Brother. Age is such a liberator.

[@philipmoss4027]

When John answered J Haidt's question at 1:07:15 by saying, basically, there really is no inclusion problem to be addressed ... How badly we need to hear this! It's insane that we've got into this posture of feeling like we have to pretend there's a serious problem.

[@EricM_001]

Excellent conversation. Thank you both.

[@DaintyDeity]

Thank you for talking about the importance of science-based reading instruction!

[@jeffcummings4600]

Thank you, Amna and John, for this extremely helpful conversation on a topic that usually only generates highly emotional, highly polarized fights these days. This is how such conversations need to be engaged in. I have watched this video several times already. I know I will be coming back to it again in the future as a model for my own engagement with such conversations.

[@justinpaul3110]

I like his slight grouchiness🤣 He's a gift.

[@Grappapappa]

I must have heard around 100 interviews of John McWhorther and just landed on this one. I think this is among the best.

[@mottgirl13]

Yikes I’m 48, have 3 kids, and am on the school council... but nope... it stopped there... I’m not white, and am quite open to ideas I’ve not heard of... but I’ll still read this book. 🤪

[@matthafer2415]

This is so much what I've been trying to articulate.

[@evanprinsloo6412]

What a delightful conversation!! Thank you.

[@estebannemo1957]

Does that unnamed author's name rhyme with Meebrahim X Shnendi?

[@groovecouple4644]

Good guess lol

[@wut4594]

Thanks Prof. McWhorter! Brilliant and utterly sane.

[@sifridbassoon]

thanks for the video. I love John! I would love to see him in a musical on stage.

[@estherphelps3606]

I love you and I am 91 yrs I love your mind

[@rollinginthedeep6900]

Okay John McWhorter is brilliant in so many ways, but one of the things that really struck me almost to my core as he was talking was 27:07 where he states that people want to change higher education to allow black students to be more "spiritual" and "impressionistic" in STEM fields. The true beauty of this man is that as a linguist he's capable of putting words to so many things I think or feel but can't describe aptly out loud. Good for him. He needs to be heard on a massive scale. EDIT: I started higher education homeless and disconnected from my immigrant family. The programs I found in college that were supposed to be designed for "someone like me" all parroted that same idea: that STEM was too hard, too male, too dense for women, minorities, people of any kind of strife in economical or social status. At a time when I desperately needed to be education and continue my career and job pursuits, my teachers were encouraging me to tear down a system I didn't even understand and stay away from the field that could truly serve my needs economically. No one has really put that into words the way John McWhorter does so succinctly.

[@Featherfinder]

Minute 55 (in which John M. lists things he’d like to see happen) was especially heavenly for me. One of those things was that PHONICS should once again be consistently taught in schools. YES YES YESSSSS!!! 🙏

[@joan3891]

I love listening to McWhorter!

[@winds10]

This man is a savior of sorts. Having battled our local school board that labeled advanced learning for children a "racist" program that deserved to be dismantled, I know all too well the harm the "Elect" are inflicting on education.

[@davidguymon1673]

So, when are we going to get John McWhorter and Johnathan Haidt together in a discussion? I'd totally love that. I haven't read John's book, but I've read all three of Johnathan's books, especially The Coddling Of The American Mind.

[@Malignus68]

Great interview!

[@richardburt9812]

Excellent interview, great conversation.

[@jeremyreagan9085]

John is a good thinker he takes thought very seriously and I admire his depth and careful readings of various authors both black and white. I as a blind man find race to be hard to understand. I see people in voice and in the words they express not in skin color.

[@kham6006]

Did he give his analogy of presidents of universities, corporations are peeing their pants yet ? Loved that one on the Glenn show

[@larreye8451]

“I mean this literally, it just smells like pee.”

[@soni3085]

He didn’t !!!!! But I filled in the blank in my head :)

[@cosmopessoa1556]

Mc Whorter does not appear to know or care to know of the long-lasting inherited damages that can be done to a people's psychic, its consequences when specific acts are forced on them. The results are devastating and predictable There are numerous methods used by Predatorial insects and human primates when attacking their own species and the methods are somewhat similar and highly destructive. The three principal methods used in combination to capture and control a Group are Swarming, physical, and through the nervous system for insects, for humans, it's Swarming, physical, and through the subconscious mind. That battle rages on today!!!! Mc Whorter For humans controls its (A) intrinsic and extrinsic values (B) Controlling Values are the use of (1 Psychic Trauma ) (2 Territorial Imperative) (3 Paired Associate learning) This cocktail of physical and psychological imposition on humans culminates into self-hate, depression, self-oppression, psychological -trauma and finally individual self and group destruction. Most people from the oppressive groups will always go into Cognitive Dissonance, default to locking themselves into a fortress of self-denial when confronted with this social construct they had created.

[@symmetrie_bruch]

an international treaure.listening to him can be quite surreal at times. imagine if you just had the transcript, you would think oh that´s good writing right there, probably sat down a long time to craft that, but then you realize oh he´s just freestyling that. and i mean yes, he is an accomplished writer, but even among accomplished writers, only very rarely do you have this kind of effortlessness in eloquence and clarity of speech

[@Brommear]

Thank you for a good quality interview. I like the way you steered the conversation. BTW, at which SA uni did you teach? I' ex-UCT/Maties.

[@galaxytrio]

Good interviewer!

[@carolblume5073]

Nice vintage set of The Great Books of the Western World in the background at 1:18:03. My parents had a set they bought in the 50s that were lost in a housefire. I believe they are out of print now. It costs a pretty penny shopping online to replace them.

[@timffoster]

Good question, Dr. Haidt.

[@parishchesney1557]

John McWorter please talk with Jordan Peterson, i really think that would be such a great conversation to had!

[@themeadowlarkminutewithpau8184]

I agree!!!!!

[@starczarar]

^ that's all it would be. I agree, I agree, followed by 10,000 comments on yt "These are the most intelligent people in the world!" Sheep.

[@bcaominh]

Glad he is still teaching...

[@williammontes2851]

McWhorter at his best

[@burleybater]

John's answer to Jonathan Haidt makes me think of this - That if I could imagine myself a Black student on a given campus (much like the one I actually work in) and this particular student was a fairly free-thinking individual, possessed of a certain healthy measure of pride, dignity, and awareness of how the world works in general, and also a fair measure of easy social skills, and a generally humane and human attitude... Would I find myself becoming increasingly aware of certain things. Like how white students, teachers, tutors, administrators, librarians, service industry people in general - kind of freeze up a little, or shift gears a little, or in some subtle but still obvious and nuanced kind of way, shift into a kind of performative self-protectiveness, or a shyness, or a guardedness of some sort. And would I then find that no, this is not what I want at all. Perhaps because it feels fake, or it feels somewhat condescending, or it feels patronizing, or it feels like yeah - this is it: that they don't see me at all, but instead they see the victim they've been taught to look for, or some kind of otherwise fragile person that I'm not. I don't know that my imagination is exactly a work of fiction. But neither can I claim it as a non-fiction either, because what I'm describing is a thing I rarely encounter on my campus. And I come in contact with perhaps, ten to twenty thousand different people on my campus in a given school year, because I work in a very popular library.

[@Captain1nsaneo]

1:17:23 How am I supposed to read your screen's reflection on the painting if you're not recording in 4k John? Someone get this man a camera.

[@guytrout7101]

Well done.

[@clayerkwiltee2315]

John Mcwhorter is like the Cary Grant of public intellectuals. He's just smooth ( even while changing a battery on Skype).

[@haravenscroft0]

If wokeness truly is a religion then non-believers should be able to be say "Ah yes, I see that's your religion. I don't believe that but more power to ya". The problem is, if you say that in any context you will be fired, scolded, de-personed etc...

[@ATMyles]

You’d be considered “problematic,” which, as McWhorter has said on the Glenn Show, is the modern equivalent of *blasphemous.*

[@lisapawlik2510]

Yes, it is a religion that punishes even non-believers. Well, it punishes them the hardest. The most intolerant of religions.

[@davidgaskin1558]

A good correlation would be when the state hijacked the church and enacted blasphemy laws and killed those who opposed it.

[@RCCarDude]

@@lisapawlik2510 Correct. You can see this phenomenon especially in how apostates are treated.

[@janso7979]

The thing is that Wokeism is an actual living religion, and thus intolerant. Christianity has been dying out in the West as a living religion for the last several hundred years. I'd say that in Europe it's almost completely dead. When most of the European people were true-believing Christians you had things like the Spanish Inquisition and the Crusades. People who are tolerant of other's religions are generally that way because their own faith is tepid. Wokeism now seems set on enacting its own inquisition. To true believers, heresy is one of the gravest of sins. Islam is also much more of a living religion than Christianity, which is why you're so much more likely to see Muslims willing to die (or kill) for their beliefs. You'll find people in the West willing to kill for money or power, but not many will kill or sacrifice themselves for Christianity.

[@alexandrac9536]

I agree with him. Yes, some students in the lower grades have better starts; i too had poor education in the lower grades through high school and left early, but that does say anything about one's aptitude and desire to learn. IT would be better to try to bring students up to the expectations of college and meet them where they are at rather than lower the standards. Assuming that race or even language background will affect one's ability to learn are prejudices and lowering standards is unfair to them.

[@amarissimus29]

'Very few evil people exist and almost no one is crazy. This stuff is complicated.' JMs a priori; one of the reasons why he's worth listening to.

[@DanHowardMtl]

Get John McWhorter with Mike Rowe. I'd love to see that!

[@davidanderson9664]

Ending the war on drugs and free contraception helps EVERYBODY - American, non, black, white.... EVERYONE! D.A. J.D., NYC

[@discipleslim9506]

John is a cool dude. I would have been trying to hook up with the host.

[@tmstani23]

@John you're rock and had so much insight and truth in this one. Lose some weight though you need to do one day of fasting! :)

[@megg.6651]

I really love John McWhorter

[@michaelhiggins2562]

Wisdom does not come in any particular color --- it comes in all colors!

[@michaelhiggins2562]

He said: I'm much more interested in working on changes for real people on the ground that improve people's lives." That must be the focus of our efforts going forward --- and stop this miscellaneous hating. Are you listening Revenue Al?

[@SmallBobby]

"yes, you can't" love it lol

[@billderinbaja3883]

"Yes we can't" has never been the bellweather call to societal improvement... well said JMcW

[@mozfonky]

"We have rhythm" John is such a tightass I'd love to see him dance.

[@beautifulrose8619]

When I was at University, Black student I knew struggled a lot in the class she took with me. We became friends, but I always wondered if she was there because of affirmative action. If she was, I was two immediate problems: One- that that thought even crossed my mind of her being affirmative action. two - the class was too hard for her if she was admitted for the color of her skin.

[@JH-ji6cj]

By your writing, I highly doubt your story, or that you went to college. I can only hope that no matter how your 'friend' got there (if true), her ability to communicate turned out better than you display.

[@cosmopessoa1556]

you sound like you have an inquiring mind i will open a door for you in this fascinating world of mind control and is good and evils Great inherited damages that can be done to a people's psychic, its consequences when specific acts are forced on them. The results are devastating and predictable There are numerous methods used by Predatorial insects and human primates when attacking their own species and the methods are somewhat similar and highly destructive. The three principal methods used in combination to capture and control a Group are Swarming, physical, and through the nervous system for insects, for humans, it's Swarming, physical, and through the subconscious mind. That battle rages on today!!!! For humans control its the use of (A) intrinsic and extrinsic values (B) The Controlling Values are (1 Psychic Trauma ) (2 Territorial Imperative) (3 Paired Associate learning) This cocktail of physical and psychological imposition on humans culminates into self-hate, depression, self-oppression, psychological -trauma and finally individual self and group destruction. Most people from the oppressive groups will always go into Cognitive Dissonance, default to locking themselves into a fortress of self-denial when confronted with this social construct they had created.

[@michaelweber5702]

Many didn't have a voice . Let's give all , ALL of us a break . "They' have had a voice . Students have been trained to be unfair , mainly to others but also to themselves ... This is destructive , this is anti intellectual . I thank you John McWhorter ...

[@jennyjenny3531]

It's no surprise to see, at the end, that his house is covered in books :)

[@patsirianni7984]

Today it is almost impossible to converse with people without offending or not being political correct. So for I no longer care if I offend nor being political correct . I only speak with friends and family

[@playnejayne5550]

Could be that the feeling of being disincluded is a social thing. Hypersensitivity and adherence to racial orthodoxy would actually make this worse, as people hesitate to associate with those who are easily offended for fear of committing a microaggression or somesuch.

[@EytanLerner]

Hello , does anyone knows when the new Mcworther book is out ?

[@JH-ji6cj]

Just here to remind you that you asked this on the internet

[@EytanLerner]

@@JH-ji6cj I do not understand the reply

[@JH-ji6cj]

@@EytanLerner no surprise there. 🤦‍♂️

[@EytanLerner]

@@JH-ji6cj I have no idea what you want . I asked when his new book is out

[@JH-ji6cj]

@@EytanLerner ever heard of a Google search? It's this internet thing you might want to check out. You can put questions in the search bar, and it will search for information so you don't have to expect people on the comments to know obscure information for you. C'mon now, you can do better. For all humanity, please try.

[@just_another32]

I'm more interested in viewpoint diversity among intellectuals. But this'll do in the meantime.

[@davidicaza1178]

?

[@just_another32]

@@davidicaza1178 Haha, I should have explained... I'm not from a racialized world... I'm a Brit... we have intellectuals... not black intellectuals and white intellectuals. Not until this past year anyway... :-/

[@ATMyles]

@@just_another32 Sadly, we now live in a black and white world, at least in the West.

[@just_another32]

I'll never submit to that :)

[@ATMyles]

@@just_another32 Good! Nor will I. It’s not what most people want either.

[@freddieoblivion6122]

Good convo - love it. Is this all the result of lowering the standards on college campuses in order to make more tax rats?? Credit must be given where it is due... We ALL stand on the shoulders of giants.

[@think4myself]

Do tell...what's a tax rat?

[@tteot1wph]

Love the dead space profile pic

[@sfkid57]

now i understand what is saying

[@oraz.]

I don't follow the race issue much, but I wish there was someone like John exposing academic feminism, which I think is neosexism posing as benevolent in the same way.

[@markheithaus]

I want John McWhorter for president. I can dream.

[@jeremyreagan9085]

I like his linginistic work. I am so disappointed at the state of intellectual that in the US right now.

[@professoreff3483]

“The fact of the matter is, when you’re an adjunct…speaking your mind carries real risks.” Exactly. Tenured faculty are going to have to take the hit here. Don’t make a wave of adjuncts get fired and replaced by people willing to toe the line. Know that most of them are pretending they’re fine aligning with a rigid political stance bc they have bills to pay

[@juliekowalski8674]

Name the person, John! I'd like to find that book.

[@mspoints4fre123]

It's sad that one of the few non-woke sane people at a college is the one who's supposed to be in fear of getting shunned and fired and not the other way around.

[@geoffreyscott785]

I suspect Haidt and McWhorter agree with one another that we need to stop coddling college kids when they are being dramatic. I read something about that somewhere.

[@theragingmoderate7797]

Can we please get John mcgorder a better set up for online talking. Can I suggest that he record separately from his online talking and then Dropbox it to an editor and have him put the better quality version before it's posted online. John's thoughts are too important to be ruined by bad audio.

[@dman5ful]

💕

[@famalam943]

Could you imagine a conversation between John and Cornel West? West would start shouting like a man-child like he always does when someone doesn’t agree with him.

[@pacifront83]

the sycophant progressives of America should take a good listen to this gentleman and fen scholar #2A#1A 😊

[@timffoster]

Gonna start a crowdfund to help my man get some curtains...

[@dragonore2009]

The elect do hold quite a bit of power. I read a story one time in the comment section of a different channel, where an employee was using some kind of cleaner to clean his desk and the cleaner had an overpowering smell. One of the employees, a white man told the guy cleaning, "hey can you tone it down a bit with the cleaning product, I can't breathe over here." As this happened, a black elect employee came out and overheard this and said "you can't breather, are you mocking George Floyd?" The white employee proceeded to mention the context of the other employee using a cleaner. Despite his efforts, the black employee filed a racism complaint against the white employee and he was subsequently released (fired). I'm guessing the company didn't want to take any chances, and just caved in. Who knows if this is true, this was a comment I read online in a comment section. If it is true, that is truly sad that an elect black woke person can have that much power.

[@58Galtha]

Whipper snapper..😜😂

[@clifb.3521]

17:58 Going to make “we cant publish this because we’re too woke” a txt alert on my phone 😂😂😂

[@beautifulrose8619]

Which person is he talking about?