2 ms·

> Systems in which your skin color is the most important attribute have little space for meritocracy and movement among classes, and create an explosive reservo

> Systems in which your skin color is the most important attribute have little space for meritocracy and movement among classes, and create an explosive reservoir of resentment. Lol. Maybe we are seeing an explosive reservoir of resentment because of exactly that?

inglor_cz 6y ago
That would make sense in the streets of Ferguson, but it does not explain why well-off, mostly white coastal elites bought the idea hook-and-sinker. John McWhorter argues that wokeness is simply an ersatz religion, filling up empty spiritual space left by previous creeds. And freshly minted religions tend to be strident and punishing. https://www.persuasion.community/p/john-mcwhorter-the-neoracists https://www.persuasion.community/p/john-mcwhorter-the-neorac...
- alphabettsy 6y ago
  Who is John McWhorter that I should give credence to what he argues? The beginning of his article does not lead me to believe he’s capable of offering a balanced and nuanced view. His poorly constructed arguments based on his own “Third Wave Antiracist tenets” are a pretty run of the mill strawmans restating the position of those he disagrees with in an absurd way that clearly misses the point intentionally.
  - inglor_cz 6y ago
    Who is Ibram X. Kendi or Robin DiAngelo? I tried to read their works; I cannot see the reason for their popularity. They fail at writing and reasoning at the same time. Perhaps people just bought their books as a kind of moral atonement, not for reading. These two are social Lysenkos of the 2020s. I will stick with McWhorter and his straightforward logic.
    - alphabettsy 6y ago
      I couldn’t tell you, haven’t read them, but a brief look tells me what you’re getting at. You used his name as if it carried some significance. Sound logic would be based off of arguments actually made, but that’s not what McWhorter does.

inglor_cz 6y ago

That would make sense in the streets of Ferguson, but it does not explain why well-off, mostly white coastal elites bought the idea hook-and-sinker. John McWhorter argues that wokeness is simply an ersatz religion, filling up empty spiritual space left by previous creeds. And freshly minted religions tend to be strident and punishing. https://www.persuasion.community/p/john-mcwhorter-the-neoracists https://www.persuasion.community/p/john-mcwhorter-the-neorac...

alphabettsy 6y ago
Who is John McWhorter that I should give credence to what he argues? The beginning of his article does not lead me to believe he’s capable of offering a balanced and nuanced view. His poorly constructed arguments based on his own “Third Wave Antiracist tenets” are a pretty run of the mill strawmans restating the position of those he disagrees with in an absurd way that clearly misses the point intentionally.
- inglor_cz 6y ago
  Who is Ibram X. Kendi or Robin DiAngelo? I tried to read their works; I cannot see the reason for their popularity. They fail at writing and reasoning at the same time. Perhaps people just bought their books as a kind of moral atonement, not for reading. These two are social Lysenkos of the 2020s. I will stick with McWhorter and his straightforward logic.
  - alphabettsy 6y ago
    I couldn’t tell you, haven’t read them, but a brief look tells me what you’re getting at. You used his name as if it carried some significance. Sound logic would be based off of arguments actually made, but that’s not what McWhorter does.