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THE VICTORIANS HAD TO ACCEPT DARWIN. WE NEED TO ACCEPT THAT COPS KILL WHITE PEOPLE AS EASIL…
Otherwise, our conversation on race is deeply and perniciously fake.
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THE ELECT: THE THREAT TO A PROGRESSIVE AMERICA FROM ANTI-BLACK ANTIRACISTS
Serial excerpt No. 7: Why do so many kind, normal people join something so illogical and punitive?
John McWhorter
Apr 12
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Pevear and Volokhonsky are Indeed Overrated - My Two Roubles
Expanding on my toss-off, because I have thought a lot about it.
John McWhorter
Apr 8
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DO I THINK RACISM STARTED IN 1966?
A correction on my Atlantic piece, since many think I don't know about slavery while others are just fetishizing the dictionary.
John McWhorter
Apr 5
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IS DEREK CHAUVIN A RACIST MURDERER OR JUST A MURDERER?
I suspect the latter, but have little hope that our national conversation could allow it -- yet maybe progress can happen anyway.
John McWhorter
Apr 2
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THE ELECT: THE THREAT TO A PROGRESSIVE AMERICA FROM ANTI-BLACK ANTIRACISTS
Serial excerpt No. 6: Finishing up on how the new concept of "social justice" is unjust to black people.
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Mar 30
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THE ELECT: THE THREAT TO A PROGRESSIVE AMERICA FROM ANTI-BLACK ANTIRACISTS
Serial excerpt No. 5: Why it won't do to admit this is a religion and "own" it - The Elect harbor a religion that harms black people in countless ways.
John McWhorter
Mar 23
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Translating Amanda Gorman
Is experiencing white supremacy all she is? And if not, why do her translators have to be people just like her?
John McWhorter
Mar 20
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