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John McWhorter [1], together with economist Glenn Loury [2], describe themselves as the black wing of the Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) [3]. One can argue that he
by sradman 6y ago
John McWhorter [1], together with economist Glenn Loury [2], describe themselves as the black wing of the Intellectual Dark Web (IDW) [3]. One can argue that he and Steven Pinker make up the linguistic wing of the IDW and both are cultural treasures. This article is an excerpt from his new (release date?) book, The Elect: Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and their Threat to a Progressive America.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McWhorter
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Loury https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Loury
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_dark_web https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_dark_web
- sradman 6y agoExplaining the title The Elect: > One more thing: We need a crisper label for the problematic folk. I will not title them “Social Justice Warriors.” That, and other labels such as “the Woke Mob” are unsuitably dismissive. One of the key insights I hope to get across is that most of these people are not zealots. > The author and essayist Joseph Bottum has found the proper term, and I will adopt it here: We will term these people The Elect. I prefer the term Social Justice Activists.