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Andrew Shields · @AndrewShields
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"I wish spelling and punctuation rules were as loose as the way people actually play Monopoly or make recipes or dance, the way things were before standardization set in starting in the 16th century. […] so much of this orthographical etiquette is the product of random morphings and half-baked decisions piling up over time […].”

nytimes.com/2023/04/06/opinion

#linguistics #spelling #johnmcwhorter

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The Root RSS · @theroot
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#kimberlc3a9williamscrenshaw #entertainment2cculture #africanamericanculture #losgatos2ccalifornia #fictionalcharacters #nikolehannahjones #harlemrenaissance #jerrodcarmichael #waitingtoexhale #cartergwoodson #louisarmstrong #sherrilynifill #jackierobinson #sidneypoitier #johnmcwhorter #adrianquesada #blackpanther #truthbetold #Harlem

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Clare Xanthos, PhD · @clarexanthos
7 followers · 14 posts · Server universeodon.com

Columbia University professor John McWhorter is an anti-racial justice author whose work is eagerly lapped up by his racist fanbase. In his book, , he unleashes a 224-page rant against what he perceives as the evils of .

clarexanthos.substack.com/p/de

#wokeracism #antiracism #racialjustice #racialequity #socialjustice #antiwoke #antiwokeism #antiantiracism #johnmcwhorter #racism

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Lesering.de · @lesering
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#wilderer #sammlung #torilbrekke #doppelleben #heinzstrunk #davidwengrow #dieerwahlten #AnnikaJoeres #susannegotze #wernerherzog #davidgraeber #johnmcwhorter #haraldweltzer #jahresruckblick #DieVierteGewalt #alainclaudesulzer #richarddavidprecht #KlimaaußerKontrolle #EinSommerinNiendorf #ReinhardKaiser #einrostigerklangvonfreiheit #jederfursichundgottgegenalle

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Lesering.de · @lesering
8 followers · 96 posts · Server troet.cafe
Jahresrückblick 2022: Die besten Bücher - Sammlung - Lesering.de

#wilderer #sammlung #torilbrekke #doppelleben #heinzstrunk #davidwengrow #dieerwahlten #AnnikaJoeres #susannegotze #wernerherzog #davidgraeber #johnmcwhorter #haraldweltzer #jahresruckblick #DieVierteGewalt #alainclaudesulzer #richarddavidprecht #KlimaaußerKontrolle #EinSommerinNiendorf #ReinhardKaiser #einrostigerklangvonfreiheit #jederfursichundgottgegenalle

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Kar · @Karenlynn
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Two of my favorite authors this year: @neildegrassetyson & 🖤📚

#johnmcwhorter

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Clare Xanthos · @clarexanthos
2 followers · 4 posts · Server universeodon.com
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In his 2021 book, "Woke Racism," John McWhorter unleashes a tirade against what he perceives as the evils of anti-racism which he labels as “woke racism.” At the time of writing this article, McWhorter is following and followed by a number of well-known racists on Twitter, including notorious racial realist Charles Murray, one of the authors of the infamous book, "The Bell Curve."

clarexanthos.medium.com/despic

clarexanthosphd.wordpress.com/

#woke #antiwoke #antiracism #racism #wokeracism #johnmcwhorter

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Robin Fritche [ɹʷɑbɪn fɹɪtʃi] · @robinleaf
191 followers · 379 posts · Server universeodon.com

Five books to get to know me:
1. Cytonic by  () 
2. American Fascism by ( and )
3. Mexicoland by (en español) ()
4. La brújula dorada (The Golden Compass) by (en español) ()
5. Nine Nasty Words by ()

1, 4, & 5 are audiobooks I'm listening to while driving. :ablobcatrave:

#brandonsanderson #scifi #brynntannehill #politics #history #jaimealfonsosandoval #dystopianfiction #philippullman #fantasy #johnmcwhorter #linguistics #bookstodon #amreading

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M. Grégoire · @mpjgregoire
235 followers · 14262 posts · Server mamot.fr
Bloggingheads.tv - Bloggingheads.tv

There's some very good stuff in this "Best of 2021" video from and :

bloggingheads.tv/videos/63427

I particularly enjoyed Prof. Loury talking about his double life while he was "the first black tenured professor of economics at Harvard". [0] But it's all good.

[0] When does his memoir come out?



#bloggingheads #uspol #barackobama #racism #johnmcwhorter #glennloury

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tripu · @tripu
163 followers · 1324 posts · Server qoto.org

I’m getting really tired of the bogus argument “if we dispense with , worse forms of dogmatism arise to fill the void”.

No.

First, a technicality: some of the secular forms of fanaticism that did replace in History were themselves religions. , and others have in insisted in the religious nature of (and my reading of is confirming that); from to showed all the signs of a faith-based ideology; has mapped all the tenets of a religion onto wokeism; etc. So in a sense, and others are right when they say that often religion gets replaced with worse stuff… but then they should explain what “worse stuff” they fear could replace the religion that we call, eg, !

And even then, this argument is tossed around with no supporting evidence: where’s the careful study of enough historical situations to prove that always (or even often) when some form of lost ground quickly, nihilistic or destructive atheism took its place?

If one removes broken tiles from the floor, of course there’s the risk that those holes will get filled with mud or dirt. But it does not have to be that way. One is also free to decide to level the floor with new tiles or with other material — or even to board up that entire corner of the house, and never step on it again.

podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/

#religion #christopherhitchens #samharris #meinkampf #communism #mao #polpot #johnmcwhorter #nazism #christianity #jordanpeterson #wokeism #monotheism

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M. Grégoire · @mpjgregoire
235 followers · 14262 posts · Server mamot.fr
Bloggingheads.tv - Bloggingheads.tv

Listening to the first conversation between and in 2007, the most surprising thing is not that Prof. Loury is to the left of Dr. McWhorter, but that Prof. Loury's voice is so different. Maybe the recording technology? Deeper and more resonant these days; maybe he feels more comfortable with himself.

bloggingheads.tv/videos/62481

#glennloury #johnmcwhorter

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M. Grégoire · @mpjgregoire
235 followers · 14262 posts · Server mamot.fr
STANFORD magazine

#marginalrevolution #johnmcwhorter

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tripu · @tripu
163 followers · 1324 posts · Server qoto.org

Here [subscriber edition], encourages honest to be brave to stand their ground against the mob of the “elect” (generally well-intentioned caught up in the new religion of ), to politely express disagreement, and to resist the urge to try to reason with them (it's futile) and instead let the petty scandal of the day dissolve by itself.

Listening to the conversation, I was thinking I should extend that pessimistic, if also liberating, piece of advice to my own country () and to other topics beside (, , ), and try to apply it myself — if nothing else, for my own sanity.

samharris.org/podcasts/217-new

#johnmcwhorter #americans #progressives #identitypolitics #spain #racism #sexism #economicinequality #nationalism

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