Woke Racism How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America

My most recent two books were Nine Nasty Words about profanity and Woke Racism about race and cultural issues.

I agree with John McWhorter there's it's pointless he followed a similar path to the one you just outlined you know where he sort of thought they could be bargained with and now has realized no

It's about frankly the world but that is the ideology that we're talking about.

It's a new religion, woke ism, woke racism, it's a new religion.

You cannot reason with them about issues having to do with power differentials.

It's a religion partly because of this utter imperviousness to reason.

Historical figures who weren't woke on race must be canceled.

I would even go as far as to say like a bit of like a religious kind of attitude towards it like I I think of John McWorders book woke racism and and the idea that um this is kind of supplanting this like this ideology in a in a post faith world is oftentimes occupying that same part of the the human psyche I would say um but also it's so institutionalized at these colleges as well I think that even even if not every professor agrees with it certainly the administrators are extremely disproportionately left wing or left leaning and when I was at NYU for example we on the back of our AT cards it says here's 9-1-1 here's the phone number for the campus police which you probably could theoretically need in New York City at any point in time and here's the the student health center and all these emergency numbers and then also the bias response hotline where you could call if you felt aggrieved or offended by something that someone said and it's literally an institutionalized snitch culture on these campuses and it was literally on the back of the bathroom stalls too they'd have like posters of like has something happened to you call the bias response hotline and you're you know immediately on the phone with an administrator so I you're walking on eggshells and even if it is just a small percentage of kids who will hiss or who will call you any sort of easterism or a foe at any any opportunity just one kid doing that is enough to shut an entire class down I believe and I I saw it firsthand yeah it's a very effective leverage one person that has that what's that panopticon it's kind of like the panopticon right that you have one person that's able to be in the middle and manipulate an awful lot of people around them's opinions and the fear it's a race to the bottom in that regard like whoever has the most the highest purity level is the one whose opinion is is going to continue to be pushed forward

and because one book a year isn't enough he's coming out with a new one called Woke Racism, how a new religion is betraying black America

woke racism well well woke racism and how a new religion is betraying black america so okay so that's that's quite the title I mean it I'm sure it was very carefully chosen

my book is about people it's actually I'm known for saying things black people don't like black a lot of black people aren't gonna like woke racism but woke racism is gonna be hated by a lot of white people too

I hope you have the success that you deserve with your new book woke racism how a new religion is betraying black america

I think that you and I are best known if we're talked about in the same sentences based on that exchange at aspen and I would venture to say that although that's really gotten around it meant more to the audience of people who've been watching it than it meant to either one of us and so I'm happy to have actually had a one-on-one with you

if people are trying to get an understanding of this john mcworder who's at I think he's Columbia he's just written a book is anybody know that is it woke racism is that what he calls it i think it is woke racism yeah and really what he does is he says why anti racism exactly what's happening with this bill why it is racist and he takes a lot of time to explain it so that's a read that some people might want to take a look at yeah it's woke racism john mcworder yeah so yes that would definitely be worth taking a look at

the summer before my first year of college, my dad recommended me the book Woke Racism by John McWhorter, ... I was like, you know, I think this is stupid and racist and actually doesn't work. ... it led me to question the social support I had and ultimately helped me reject my transgender identity.

I think John McWhorter is fantastic.

John McWhorter who wrote Woke Racism. We've had him on before. I think he's a very strong thinker.

his new book, Woke Racism. I had him recently on a Twitter space. It's hugely popular. He's got a lot to say.

In his new book, Woke Racism, he argues that anti-racism has become a new religion on the left and it's hurting the people it claims to serve.

So talk about your book, Will Grayson.