Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter Portfolio/Penguin, 2021, xv + 201 pp. John McWhorter is an eminent linguistics professor who teaches at Columbia. He is himself black, and he argues that “woke” racism does not help blacks and other minorities. It has, he says, become a religion, and those who question it
John McWhorter takes on the present infatuation with wokeness and shows the real harm it is doing to our social fabric. Original Article: “Spelling Out the Problem with W-o-k-e-n-e-s-s” This Audio Mises Wire is generously sponsored by Christopher
Island of Sanity Mises Review 3, No. 4 (Winter 1997) LITERATURE LOST John M. Ellis Yale University Press, 1997, x + 262 pgs. Like Martha Nussbaum, whose Cultivating Humanity is addressed above, John M. Ellis is concerned with multiculturalism. His excellent book, taken together with her less than excellent one, enables readers to gain a firm grasp
Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America por John McWhorter Portfolio/Penguin, 2021, xv + 201 pp. John McWhorter es un eminente profesor de lingüística que enseña en Columbia. Él mismo es negro, y sostiene que el racismo «woke» no ayuda a los negros ni a otras minorías. Según él, se ha convertido en una religión, y sus acólitos
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