If it is so funny, and by the way employing acronyms is corny, it should be easy for you to define “woke,” you use it frequently, so define it for us, offer us a definition
Say good bye to “uncernored,” another one who can’t even explain the words he uses
Arsecheese you never change!! Heard of John McWhorter, surely even you must have by now?
'Woke Racism': John McWhorter argues against what he calls a religion of anti-racism
The professor John McWhorter has problems with the way Americans are talking about race and racism.
McWhorter is a Black liberal. But he argues that the cultural left, along with major institutions and companies, have gone too far in embracing "anti-racist" ideas.
Much of it relates to the way two prominent writers about race have influenced public opinion about racism. Ibram X. Kendi's How to Be an Antiracist and Robin DiAngelo's White Fragility have both landed on bestseller lists since last summer, after widespread protests erupted over George Floyd's killing.
Both Kendi and DiAngelo have appeared on NPR and NPR has published articles that promote anti-racism.
McWhorter argues that certain strains of anti-racism and its adherents have effectively created a religion, and a zealous one, that stifles nuance and debate. His new book is called Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America.
There are people "whose devotion is less to changing lives for people who need help than showing that they understand that racism and especially systemic racism exists," McWhorter tells Morning Edition.
"The idea is that you are to be fired" if you disagree or violate anti-racism's norms, in McWhorter's telling. "You are to be dismissed from polite society. You are to be sanctioned. You can't be among us. You're dirty."
McWhorter points to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art's chief curator, who resigned under pressure after an uproar involving his use of the words "reverse discrimination." In another case, he points to white food writer Alison Roman, who was suspended from her New York Times column after criticizing celebrities Chrissy Teigen, who is Asian American, and Marie Kondo, who is Asian.
Linguist John McWhorter Says 'White Fragility' Is Condescending Toward Black People
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Linguist John McWhorter Says 'White Fragility' Is Condescending Toward Black People
McWhorter, who is a professor of linguistics at Columbia University and a New York Times opinion writer, talked with NPR about his criticisms of anti-racism and contrasts to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. Interview highlights have been edited for length and clarity and contain extended web-only questions and answers.
Interview Highlights
Why is it that you assert that people who are pushing a particular kind of anti-racism are practicing something like a religion?
Part of many religions is that at a certain point, you're supposed to suspend disbelief. At a certain point, you're supposed to stop using logic and you're just supposed to, for example, believe. You're just supposed to have faith. That is the way this new anti-racism goes in many cases. ...
This is a religion where instead of it being about your faith in Jesus, it's about showing that you know that racism exists above all else, including basic compassion. That's religious.
And then also, the way we talk about white privilege is eerily consonant with the way one talks about original sin. You have it from the beginning, it's a stain that you'll never get rid of. You're supposed to always think about it. It's there regardless of the condition of your life, and you're going to die with it. So white privilege becomes the original sin that you're supposed to live in a kind of atonement for.
https://www.npr.org/2021/11/05/1052...-woke-racism-attacks-leading-thinkers-on-race