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John McWhorter

@JohnHMcWhorter

4 months

I'm "very conservative" like Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson? She has clearly read barely a word of my work. At least when I slammed her book I had read every word, and I maintain that White Fragility is literally the worst book ever written. It's so bad it's an achievement.

Mythinformed

@MythinformedMKE

4 months

“I do not believe he speaks for the vast majority of black people.” Race hustler Robin DiAngelo responds to @JohnHMcWhorter ’s Atlantic article calling her out on the ridiculous Woke “white women’s tears” claim.

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3 years

Just back from taping Bill Maher. Methinks that ten minutes is going to make me a lot of friends and a lot of enemies. I had a blast.

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2 years

I am quite stunned to share that WOKE RACISM just made #10 on the NYT best sellers list.

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4 months

The tipping point is here. It'd really be good if Claudine Gay resigned now. The mere 11 papers was unseemly, but just maybe a university president doesn't need to be a top-class scholar. But the sheer volume of the plagiarism ON TOP OF THIS is a really bad look.

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3 years

In which academic discipline is this circular, naive, deer-caught-in-the-headlights response to a basic and urgent question considered insightful or excellent? A national culture exempting this (which, sadly, is typical of him) from judgment is unintentionally racist itself.

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3 years

"Amen and A-woman" is a long-lived Southern/black preacher signature. Rep. Cleaver meant it as a kind of witticism. He doesn't think AMEN actually has the word MEN in it; he wasn't being hyper-anything.

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John McWhorter

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2 years

This, from someone with the formal credentials of an academic, is buzzwords and rhetoric in the guise of reasoned engagement.

Ibram X. Kendi

@ibramxk

2 years

The same McWhorter merry-go-round of denial. He offers readers an escape from the discomfort of antiracism for the pleasure of demeaning Black folk as they deny they are demeaning Black folk. McWhorter has reduced himself to a popular amusement ride. He's an embarrassment. 6/6

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4 years

Buttigieg is neither a liar nor a motherf-----r, despite that hideous attack on him the other day from The Root, and plenty of black people know it. I write here, for them.

The Woke Attack on Pete Buttigieg

In The Root, Michael Harriot misreads the presidential candidate’s old comments on role models.

www.theatlantic.com

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John McWhorter

@JohnHMcWhorter

3 years

The notion that I have "racist" ideas - be that under any definition including those of the ever so intellectually nimble Dr. Kendi - merits no response, and this is the closest approximation to one that there will ever be.

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John McWhorter

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3 years

Overall, the social media universe must hear this. I am no longer a whipper-snapper. I am a jaded 55, and if you diss me where I can hear it, it's your ass. I will no longer be polite.

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John McWhorter

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4 years

Bravo to this honesty. Since May I have gotten almost an email a day from a professor who fears speaking out against the modern distortion of progressivism would get them fired.

A Declaration of Independence by a Princeton Professor

Independence of thought is considered the hallmark of academia, but everyone deserves it.

quillette.com

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John McWhorter

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3 years

It pains me that this cheat sheet documents truth. The Elect don't think of their ideology in these words. But this is indeed what, and how, they think. We must understand this sheet in order to fully know that we are not evil to disagree with them, and in fact, MUST do so.

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John McWhorter

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4 years

This is so stupid it sounds like something from the Onion. Here is this witch-hunt mentality that supposedly isn’t a real problem, including for the 25 professors who wrote me in fear yesterday.

Cabot Phillips

@cabot_phillips

4 years

I cannot believe this is real, but it is. This USC Professor is on leave after students were offended that a Chinese word he used during a lecture on foreign languages sounded like an english racial slur. Watch the video for yourself:

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John McWhorter

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3 years

Kendi is under the impression that anyone who disagrees with him simply hasn't read him carefully. This makes him neither imperious nor a hustler, but naive. "Dr." Ibram is inadequately trained academically, and engaging him requires knowing this going in.

Ibram X. Kendi

@ibramxk

3 years

@LozzaFox I’m glad you are open to new perspectives and ideas. I am too, as revealed in my books. Instead of speaking to me, I’d encourage you to read my books with an open mind. My scholarship and research-based ideas are best articulated in my books.

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4 years

You're Black and keep to yourself that it treats you like a toddler. You're non-Black and keep to yourself that it feels like racism in a new bottle. Time for truth on this dangerous little book. And many of you will guess which book I'm getting to next!

The Dehumanizing Condescension of 'White Fragility'

The popular book aims to combat racism but talks down to Black people.

www.theatlantic.com

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4 years

Finished this book last night. Now to sell the damned thing. Prospective takers will worry that I sound angry in it. But I meant to.

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6 months

This takedown of the "decolonization" term should be required reading nationwide. Bravo, Simon Sebag Montefiore for exemplifying that we must be able to hold two (or more) thoughts at the same time, even amidst imbalances of power.

The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous and False

It does not accurately describe either the foundation of Israel or the tragedy of the Palestinians.

www.theatlantic.com

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John McWhorter

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3 years

I said I won't dignify Kendi calling me a racist - in terms of defending myself. But call me self-hating and I'm done with courtly. Here I get out what I think Kendi is. I am only saying what legions have noticed all year.

Calling Out Ibram X. Kendi | Glenn Loury & John McWhorter [The Glenn...

Support the Glenn Show on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/glennshow00:00 Welcome to the Glenn Show 2.010:43 A path to forgiveness for the canceled 14:52 Joh...

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John McWhorter

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4 years

An organization dedicated to linguistic analysis must punish a leading, brilliant scholar @sapinker because in the wake of George Floyd's murder, his politics aren't sufficiently leftist? Folks, it's time to stand this gospel down.

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John McWhorter

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4 years

And as we near 8 PM, I have heard from a good 25 professors and grad students TODAY who fear for their futures because of the current McCarthyism. Yes, my tweeting about it brought out an especial number, but claims I was lying last weekend are deep-sixed.

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John McWhorter

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3 years

Yes, folks - I have the honor starting next Tuesday. Twice a week. Sometimes race, sometimes language, and sometimes things a lot of you don't know I care about! Subscriber-only benefit, btw. See you next week!

Sign up for John McWhorter

A Columbia University linguist explores how race and language shape our politics and culture.

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John McWhorter

@JohnHMcWhorter

3 years

As always, "Professor" Kendi is dim.

Ibram X. Kendi

@ibramxk

3 years

But in the mind of McWhorter—like Trump and the White supremacists McWhorter claims to oppose—antiracist changes, ushering in racial equity and justice, will destroy our institutions, will destroy America. 8/9

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John McWhorter

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6 years

Pleased to announce that I will henceforth be a Contributing Editor at the @TheAtlantic . I like this.

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John McWhorter

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4 years

Heads up -- I did @SamHarrisOrg today; drops sometime soon.

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3 years

Everybody should listen to her. A model for the only way we can get past what The Elect are doing to education nationwide.

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@AsraNomani

3 years

I spoke from my heart to the @fcpsnews school board. Watch board chair Ricardy Anderson rage at me. Didn’t she get the memo that watching the clock is “white supremacy”? She reveals the board’s true anti-Asian animus. @ricardy4Mason , YOUR time has expired. #recallFCPS

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John McWhorter

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3 years

Folks - my point was: if Kendi weren't black (yep, that's what I meant!) there are people who would hunt him down like a varmint for the mere "implications" of the way he imperfectly phrased his point. It just bears mentioning.

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John McWhorter

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4 years

I'm not at all surprised she wrote things like this. I've known black people like her my whole adult life. What's not right about our current moment is how many white people are now pretending to agree with her.

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John McWhorter

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4 years

Racism means pretending that because she’s the same color as George Floyd, Hannah-Jones must be judged as “misunderstood.” The condescension to her and all black people is revolting. I celebrate the pushback emerging against the Awokening’s excesses.

Factional warfare erupts in New York Times over the 1619 Project

Following the publication of a highly critical essay by a New York Times columnist, the public statements issued by the publisher and leading editors reflect tensions provoked by the exposure of the...

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John McWhorter

@JohnHMcWhorter

5 years

Brilliant people may be bad spellers and even inarticulate. But there are things about Trump's sloppy tweets and diluted vocabulary usage that suggest qualities of thinking (or not) that suggest his unfitness for his office.

Trump’s Typos Reveal His Lack of Fitness for the Presidency

They suggest not just inadequate manners or polish, but inadequate thought.

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John McWhorter

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2 years

A claim that a test is biased must answer this simple question: What is biased about the test's questions? Not about who composed it, or for what reasons. It's time to stop pretending that's an unreasonable (or racist) expectation.

Opinion | Lower Black and Latino Pass Rates Don’t Make a Test Racist (Published 2022)

One sociolinguistic study helps show why the issue is more complicated.

www.nytimes.com

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John McWhorter

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3 years

I approve this message!

Andrew Yang🧢⬆️🇺🇸

@AndrewYang

3 years

Sit on a panel with a guy on @RealTimers , buy his book. 😀👍 @JohnHMcWhorter

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5 months

There are indeed degrees of plagiarism. What we're seeing is just how *ordinary* a scholar Gay has been. Her main commitment has never been to research and writing. It's a kind of "let's just get on with it" text-grabbing typical of ...

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John McWhorter

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3 years

And to those who smugly tweet that only white people agree with me, have you actually looked at who my followers are? Stop dissing so many utterly authentic black people. Now.

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3 years

The tragedy is that he actually thinks he has "historicized" - via facile comparisons, btw - and "defined" [??] ideas he clearly hasn't actually processed. He again demonstrates my point, it stands, and I'm finished with this.

Ibram X. Kendi

@ibramxk

3 years

@JohnHMcWhorter I hope people read your writings degrading Black people, blaming Black racial attitudes for inequity and claiming racism is no longer a serious problem—and then my historicizing & defining your ideas. Readers will assess whether my work—or your ideas—are sloppy and fantastical.

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3 years

If anyone wants to see the whole 10-minute version of my Maher stint, look here. Such a good time! via @YouTube

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3 years

Black kids shouldn't have to learn math because it's too exact and too hard and Because Racism. Advanced thought or bigotry? (And yes, serious people are pretending there's some question ...) @JohnHMcWhorter

Is it racist to expect black kids to do math for real?

Yes, serious people are arguing this. Make sure they don't infect your school district.

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3 years

I rarely put things like this on Twitter, but given the rampant dehumanization on it, I'm throwing on this passing moment in my real life recorded in stealth by my older daughter. We'd been doing Looney Tunes, a home obsession.

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John McWhorter

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4 years

For those who are waiting for it, my book on the problem with wokeness is now 2/3 done. I will submit the first draft by Columbus Day at the latest. The news week by week basically writes the book by itself.

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4 years

Every fucking line of this is must-reading on the attempt to defenestrate ⁦ @sapinker ⁩. Decide for yourself about the erudite demons at the gates.

The Purity Posse pursues Pinker

The Woke are after Pinker again, and if he’s called a racist and misogynist, as he is in this latest attempt to demonize him, then nobody is safe. After all, Pinker is a liberal Democrat who&…

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John McWhorter

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1 year

Wokeness is just "something in a few private schools" or "bad people being called to account"? This black leftist's story is an invaluable portrait of why people like me have written books about this scourge infecting our thinking culture.

A Black Professor Trapped in Anti-Racist Hell

On the sunny first day of seminar, I sat at the end of a pair of picnic tables with nervous, excited 17-year-olds. Twelve high-school students had been chosen by the Telluride Association through a...

www.compactmag.com

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John McWhorter

@JohnHMcWhorter

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@cvaldary @DrIbram @darth_leveon @MD_Ed_Memes What’s racist is pretending an observation like that is deep thought, especially given its originator’s apparent idea that it’s actually self-evident rather than simplistic, and that to disagree with it is a form of racism ...

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John McWhorter

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3 years

The people who got Donald McNeil fired from the NYT think they are exhibiting strength. I suppose they did, but on the pain of making black people look fragile and unintelligent. A fine way to celebrate Black History Month!

The N-word as slur vs. the N-word as a sequence of sounds

What makes the New York Times so comfortable making black people look dim?

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John McWhorter

@JohnHMcWhorter

1 year

I want this on the record. I meant it. Detractors who tell me it's off or oversimplified? It isn't. They just don't want their bullying, anti-logical take on human history aired for all to see. EQUITY is EQUALITY forced via a hard-left and unreflective lens.

Amanda Plunkett

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Wow, if this is Bill Maher today, I’m all in. @JohnHMcWhorter is fearless.

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4 years

This happened!

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4 years

This morning on Morning Joe with Michael Eric Dyson. I said exactly what I wanted to, which one does not always quite get to on such shows, which is why I tend to avoid them. But there are urgencies these days. via @msnbc

Debating ‘White Fragility’ In America

Columbia professor John McWhorter and author Michael Eric Dyson join Morning Joe to discuss Robin Diangelo’s groundbreaking book, White Fragility, and what McWhorter calls Diangelo’s ‘dehumanizing...

www.msnbc.com

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4 years

Whew! Because of the Atlantic article today, I am now getting another flood of missives from academics deeply afraid. Folks, I hear you but the volume outstrips my ability to write back. Please know I am reading all of them eventually, and they all make me think.

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Meanwhile, the implication will be that this kind of mediocrity and sloppiness is somehow okay for black scholars, that the symbolism of our blackness, our "diverseness," is what matters most about us. I am unclear where the black pride (or antiracism) is in this.

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John McWhorter

@JohnHMcWhorter

4 months

Keeping this going because HER. Stay silent about me and you'll hear nothing from me. Call me out and it's on. I have on good authority that she has said she's the Neil DeGrasse Tyson to my astrologer. Ah, yes! Discuss ...

John McWhorter

@JohnHMcWhorter

4 months

I'm "very conservative" like Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson? She has clearly read barely a word of my work. At least when I slammed her book I had read every word, and I maintain that White Fragility is literally the worst book ever written. It's so bad it's an achievement.

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3 years

Preach, preach, preach, Chloe. Imagine if the people in this photo were sitting around talking about "complicitness" and "intersectionality" as if doing that was what activism was. Note that they were, well, engaging in actual activism. AND IT WORKED!

Black People Are Far More Powerful Than Critical Race Theory Preaches

My rejection of critical race theory stems not only from a wish to see no one—including white people—dehumanized but also as an affirmation of the enduring power, beauty, and triumph of black...

www.newsweek.com

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3 years

Behold in my feed - Elects uncomfortable with their views spelled out in cold print. Don't be scared by their confident sneers. Note: they feel caricatured when depicted in few words - but lustily depict their detractors in few words (w GIFs) and call it truth. They aren't deep.

John McWhorter

@JohnHMcWhorter

3 years

It pains me that this cheat sheet documents truth. The Elect don't think of their ideology in these words. But this is indeed what, and how, they think. We must understand this sheet in order to fully know that we are not evil to disagree with them, and in fact, MUST do so.

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A certain crowd think the “Trader Jose”/“Trader Ming”/“Thai Joe” line of products is not a little joke but, well, you know. Trader Joe’s has refused to receive that opinion as a Commandment. Bravo - we need more of this.

Trader Joe’s Knows That Petitions Aren’t Commandments

The company decided not to rebrand its Trader Giotto and Trader José product lines.

www.theatlantic.com

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@JohnHMcWhorter

3 years

A student at the Dwight-Englewood school (which all parents should be ditching) has written in support of the whistleblowing resignation by @dstangelplowe . And the student notes he is hardly alone.

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4 years

This. I don’t which is more disgusting, Jessica Krug (the new Rachel Dolezal) or this episode. No parents should send their kids to this school for ten years.

If USC can punish Greg Patton, free speech on campus really is dead

In Philip Roth’s 2000 novel, “The Human Stain,” classics professor Coleman Silk is drummed out of his college for asking his class whether several absent students were real or …

www.nydailynews.com

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John McWhorter

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3 years

Behold an antiracism that is about real things and real thinking, about humanity as it actually is. Chloe is what it should be.

Conor Friedersdorf

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3 years

A profile of Chloé Valdary ("Looking for an antiracism program that actually fights bigotry instead of spreading it?" her company asks.)

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3 years

Assess the ideas of @DrIbram not based on what someone else says, or his appearance (sorry, but these things matter). Hear and assess his logic, and PLEASE get past the idea that if the person is black you should let dummy logic pass.

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9 months

The outcry over this one sentence was seriously overblown. I doubt most people bothered to look at the whole document. I am mystified by anyone who did, and yet came away thinking of the document as a scourge and a menace.

New York Times Opinion

@nytopinion

9 months

Based on coverage of a single, flawed passage in Florida’s slavery curriculum, writes @JohnHMcWhorter , “one might suppose that it was a central plank in the curriculum. Instead, it was but one passage amid hundreds of others.”

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4 years

The sad thing is that this is barely a cartoon.

The Woke Temple

@WokeTemple

4 years

@RichardDawkins @JohnHMcWhorter And now they're teaching it to children.

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3 years

This is where we are. The idea that stories like Shaw's are one-off eccentricities is past its sell-by date, as is the idea that this kind of thing is "social justice." Something is tragically wrong at way too many colleges and universities.

Bari Weiss

@bariweiss

3 years

Everyone knows something wrong is happening in liberal America. Few want to say so out loud. But the hour is very late. It calls for courage. Courage has come in the form of Jodi Shaw, who today resigns from Smith College. Proud to publish her letter:

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4 years

Whites beating themselves up about how racist they are “deep down” is unnecessary to forging change. Too many now see it as normal. Protest? Bring it. Performance art? Wouldn’t the energy have been better spent getting out votes and lobbying legislators?

Kneeling in the Church of Social Justice

America certainly has work to do on race, but ritual and symbolic acts aren't the way forward.

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5 years

Beto saying "fucked up" isn't profane because f--- is no longer profane in any sense an anthropologist would recognize. It's just salty -- and honest, and sometimes le mot juste. Slurs are our modern profanity, not sex and body words.

The F-Word Is Going the Way of Hell

In today’s world, slurs are the real profanity, not the use of an “F-bomb” to describe a mass shooting.

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But - Harvard won't dismiss her, out of fear of being called racist (and, I suspect, out of a quiet sense that it's racist to expect the best from black people ...?). Prof. Gay should do the right thing for Harvard, herself, and black America and step down.

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3 years

What is happening to Paul Rossi is an indication of the mendacity behind this purported "antiracism" infecting the curricula of schools across the country. Here's hoping at least some teachers, students, or parents at Grace Church can join him in his honesty.

Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR)

@fairforall_org

3 years

Paul Rossi stood up to neo-racism at Grace Church School. But the school doesn’t see it that way. The school “relieved him of his teaching duties” and claims he now threatens the "well-being" of students. We stand firmly behind Paul. Here’s his response:

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Stop pretending about Ibram Kendi. You are not alone in finding his ideas primitive. Go with it and walk on. Maybe even tell your friends you don't get the hype. You'll likely find that they never did either!

More on what modern "antiracism" does to schools, or could not -- and some insight on the Kendi...

More on antiracist manifestos at universities, and also on the insights of a certain "Professor" Kendi levelled against me last weekend.

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Black kids were at Stuyvesant in very decent numbers in the 90s, when racism was much worse in all ways. What happened was gifted programs in public schools were shut down because they had too many white kids in them.

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My current take on cop killings and race - there is much we simply aren't told. via @Quillette

Tony Timpa and Racist Police Violence

Blacks are still somewhat more likely than whites to suffer physical and verbal abuse from the cops even when the behavior of the suspect is taken into account. Findings like these contribute to a...

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3 years

This is key. Whatever you call it, there is a KendiAngelonian strain in educational circles these days nationwide, and it needs either defense or elimination. But coyly insisting that "CRT," specifically, isn't being taught won't cut it.

Opinion | Republicans Schooled the Left in Virginia (Published 2021)

Democrats probably need a new way to talk about race and education.

www.nytimes.com

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4 years

This nails him. He used to call me sometimes. We’d talk drunk. More, I’d listen to him drunk. He was authentically black by any standard and yet refused to settle for noble victim status. His work helped spark mine. He was, well, the shit.

Stanley Crouch, Towering Jazz Critic, Dead At 74

Crouch's engagement with American culture spanned over five decades, numerous mediums and many dustups. His influence on the life and shape of jazz will remain unquantifiable.

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I am one of the signers. To promote genuine social justice, there needs to be a sincere apology about this to many people.

1776 Unites

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3 years

BREAKING. 1776 Unites, our Scholars group, and over 40 Black leaders are calling on @smithcollege to apologize to its service workers! Smith has sacrificed its lifetime workers under the banner of "anti-racism." Please RT! #1776Unites

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We are at a peculiar sociohistorical stage, where someone could think being black and jumped by white thugs makes them more interesting than being a star on a hit TV show. And sadly he’s right. (Did he not lie? I’m open, but ...)

What the Jussie Smollett Story Reveals

It shows a peculiar aspect of 21st-century America: victimhood chic.

www.theatlantic.com

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Some told me Sunday that I was lying that an academic writes me almost daily fearing for their occupational safety. Hm. Got one Monday, woke up to one this morning, heard from a grad student yesterday. And we're only halfway thru the week!

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"Lived experience" people aren't grifters. They think they have found the gospel. Our job is to tell them we know they haven't - and be ready for them to depict us as heretics on social media when we do. Hunker down. Or we return to the Dark Ages' version of serious thought.

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I wrote this a few years ago, but it's directly relevant to how we process the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd. America has a major cop problem indeed. But how race intersects with that is not as simple as we are told.

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Thomas Sowell's mind and work ought be much better known. It is splendid that @cliftonaduncan is creating a one-man show about him. He needs our help. Click here.

SOWELL: A Solo Play About an American Genius

One of America's most revered intellectuals, brought to life by one of America's most gifted actors.

www.indiegogo.com

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Go Coleman. And then go some more. This is key material.

Coleman Hughes

@coldxman

3 years

Here's an excerpt from my latest solo episode and an update from my offer to have Ibram X. Kendi on my podcast. This will be available tomorrow for my members. If you'd like to gain full access to this episode, consider becoming a member via

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A masterpiece from ⁦ @bariweiss ⁩. In future anthologies of articles on the Great Awokening, this will always be near the front. Learn here about The Elect's takeover, assuming they are bringing Good News and happy to make people cry while doing it.

American Liberalism in Danger

Read an essay about how American Liberalism is in danger and what it means to acknowledge reality in order to confront it.

www.tabletmag.com

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Want to know what to read about racism other than the fashionable wokeness hymnals? This book is now two years old and remains a must-read. Central pillars of woke wisdom are precisely what psychologists teach people OUT OF to function as healthy adults.

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Some will recall me called a liar for saying academics write me constantly in fear of The Elect scotching their careers. Here’s a report on that supposed extended hallucination on my part - and why, yes, what these academics are dealing with does matter.

Academics Are Really, Really Worried About Their Freedom

Some fear for their career because they don’t believe progressive orthodoxies.

www.theatlantic.com

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This all ACTUALLY HAPPENED. Note the sense among The Elect here that their view is beyond discussion. 2000 years ago: the birth of Christianity. Today: the birth of a new religion. It's all here. @conor64 writes:

Anti-racist Arguments Are Tearing People Apart

What a viral story reveals about contemporary leftist discourse

www.theatlantic.com

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I have often written that we simply never hear about whites killed by cops in the same ways as blacks. But I've never quite known of a parallel to one case: what happened to Tamir Rice - till now.

Maryland trooper shoots, kills teenager who had airsoft gun

A Maryland State Police trooper responding to a pair of 911 calls shot and killed a teenager who was pointing what investigators determined was an airsoft gun at him, authorities said Tuesday. The...

news.yahoo.com

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Anticipating: has Sowell gotten every single thing right? Of course not. But overall, he is infinitely wise, a font of crucial data and conclusions. Smackdown: His detractors have no problem celebrating their leftist heroes as gods despite cracks in the plaster.

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When "Black" has appeared in my pieces, the editors put it in. My drafts didn't have it.

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This is about half of my talk with Maher yesterday. I'll post a full version soon. via @YouTube

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Law prof Jason Kilborn - banned from the UIC campus for having "n*****" on an exam about employment discrimination (!) - tells me that his inquisitors have restored him to polite society. It was because normal people shouted to the heavens. KEEP IT GOING!

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All of this. As of this week, I will no longer have to stress that modern antiracism is not LIKE a religion but IS one. The parishioners are now not even pretending.

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One should listen to this man. I know him, in fact! by @bariweiss

Wrongthink on Race with Glenn C. Loury

A conversation with one of our sharpest cultural critics.

www.thefp.com

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John McWhorter

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Jason Kilborn, law professor, had his classes cancelled, is barred from campus and is on admin leave - for using the N and B words in EXPURGATED form on an exam. This isn't social justice. It's punitive piety capitulated to by cowards.

Law School N-Word Controversy Is More Complicated Than It Appears At First Glance

This is unlike other stories about law school professors using the n-word.

abovethelaw.com

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@DrIbram You are wrong, Ibram. Your notion that I consider black people inferior is based on a grievously sloppy and even fantastical reading of my work. If you're proud of that, it only reinforces my observation of this morning.

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Tomorrow morning.

The View

@TheView

2 years

TOMORROW: @JohnHMcWhorter joins us LIVE to discuss his book, ‘Woke Racism.’

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All of it. @bariweiss

Some Thoughts About Courage

We are living through an epidemic of cowardice. The antidote is courage.

www.thefp.com

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Quibbling over degree and awareness of plagiarism has its place, but at THIS point how can she hold her head high on a campus where students are allowed no such quibbles? It makes Harvard look even worse than it already does.

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A key statement for our times, which I signed. Debate, even caustic, is great. The new fashion for cleansing is not, as enlightened as it seems to so many.

Harper's Magazine

@Harpers

4 years

A statement signed by 150 people incl. Bill T. Jones, Wynton Marsalis, Jennifer Finney Boylan, Noam Chomsky, J.K. Rowling, Margaret Atwood, and Salman Rushdie expresses concern over the illiberal trend intensified by our national reckoning.

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Folks, I sense I need to specify two things. 1) When I said I would take on anyone who dissed me, I meant people who did so in public forums where "the world" listens. I did not mean that I would address every person who writes me nastily on Twitter.

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This. The simple question is: after these people savor giving the middle finger to dead people and showing one another that they're doing it, whose life, whose suffering has been improved in any meaningful way?

The Holier-Than-Thou Crusade in San Francisco

The city’s move to rename schools will provide invaluable ammunition to Fox News.

www.theatlantic.com

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We should all see this. Did Chauvin murder George Floyd? A documentary is skeptical, and all should watch it. But evidence beyond it must be considered as well. This is one of the five or so most important conversations Glenn and I have had since 2007. Where do you stand?

Glenn Loury

@GlennLoury

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This week at TGS @JohnHMcWhorter and I speak with the filmmakers of the new documentary, "The Fall of Minneapolis" (on the death of George Floyd and its aftermath). Here's they state the heart of their case.

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I explore the fine line between being "woke" about racism and indulging in a kind of replacement Christianity complete with original sin, an Old Testament God and judgement day. Too much of the latter since about 2014. via @aminterest

Atonement as Activism - The American Interest

Today’s consciousness-raising on race is less about helping black people than it is about white people seeking grace.

www.the-american-interest.com

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If Dolezal and Krug eagerly took on oppression by proxy, they are indications of progress on race despite the setbacks. If being black really were the daily degradation we are often told, these two would have chosen other ways of performing their lives.

Living in Blackface

What does it say about America that Rachel Dolezal and Jessica Krug wanted to pass as black?

www.persuasion.community

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Folks - my tweets about Kendi yesterday were too much. I shouldn't have gone there. Sincere apologies.

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This man must be heard. Covers the literature, anticipates arguments, acknowledges reality but stays constructive, keeps cool. Soon he'll start getting called the usual stuff - "white supremacist" etc - but his writing solidly smacks all of that down.

Black American Culture and the Racial Wealth Gap

In the public debate on racial inequality, the wealth gap is among the sharpest arrows in the progressive quiver.

quillette.com

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All hail Dana Stangel-Plowe, who has resigned from the Dwight-Englewood school, which teaches students "antiracism" that sees life as nothing but abuse of power, and teaches that cringing, hostile group identity against oppression is the essence of a self.

Dwight-Englewood Whistleblower

Teacher Dana Stangel-Plowe Speaks Out About Dwight-Englewood School At a school in Englewood, New Jersey, Dana Stangel-Plowe is working to advance civil rights and liberties, and promote a common...

www.fairforall.org

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Required. The usuals sit wishing this data weren’t true, seeking ways to swat it away THOUGH IT’S GOOD NEWS. They think being a good and serious person requires seeing the black condition as a disaster. We must get past that. And read Wilfred’s book too!

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