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John McWhorter
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John McWhorter writes It Bears Mentioning, a personal blog at johnmcwhorter.substack.com about politics and culture. Since 2021, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “Cops Kill White People as Easily as They Kill Black People”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (12) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link John McWhorter's Substack for his commentary on race, identity politics and 'neoracism', his serialized book The Elect, and education debates such as math standards.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 12 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Sometimes race, sometimes language, sometimes something else. Every week.
Most-linked posts?
- /p/the-elect-neoracists-posing-as-antiracists3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2021-05-01
- Cops Kill White People as Easily as They Kill Black People2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-18
What Hacker News says?
Thanks for the link! I wonder if you've read the whole thing? Several chapters in [0], we find: ...I’m realizing I can’t use the term neoracism in the subtitle of my The Elect book. From assorted social media posts, I am realizing that if I say Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and Their Threat to a Progressive America , many understandably think I am referring to black people being racist against whites. I need to s…
Comment linking /p/can-black-people-be-racist
on ““About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today””Submitted Cops Kill White People as Easily as They Kill Black People as a story · 11 points
HN discussionI’m referring to his use of the word in his new book (which he is serializing for free on his substack), “The Elect: Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and Their Threat to a Progressive America”. [1] The first place I saw the term used (he has also used it on the Glenn Show podcast). Regardless, I came not to blame him, but to praise him. Though I do agree with Kmele Foster’s insistence that the term “racist” is well…
Comment linking /p/the-elect-neoracists-posing-as-antiracists
on ““About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today””Submitted Can We Please Ditch the Term “Systemic Racism”? as a story · 9 points
HN discussion> This is the take of people who have little on the line, and don't face issues everyday This kind of narrative is an easy way to dismiss the opinions of people who disagree with you, but it bears little resemblance to the real world, where people of all kinds face issues that you may or may not know about, and people of all demographics actually do care about things like beloved Dr Seuss books going out of print: h…
Comment linking /p/and-then-they-came-for-on-beyond
on “Addiction to Outrage (2020)”Submitted The Elect: The Threat to a Progressive America from Anti-Black Antiracists as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI'd be happy to. A good place to start is the excellent, nuanced commentary on this topic from black professors Glenn Loury and John McWhorter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0H4M5uP_y8 One thing they reference during this podcast but don't talk about in much detail is the case of Tony Timpa. Many of the things many claim only happen to black Americans are in fact more general issues of police brutality, poor trai…
Comment linking /p/the-victorians-had-to-accept-darwin
on “Newark cops, with reform, didn't fire a single shot in 2020”Professor John McWhorter has called wokeness a religion > Something must be understood: I do not mean that these people’s ideology is “like” a religion. I seek no rhetorical snap in the comparison. I mean that it actually is a religion. A naïve anthropologist would see no difference in type between Mormonism and this new form of antiracism. https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/the-elect-neoracists-po...
Comment linking /p/the-elect-neoracists-posing-as-antiracists
on “Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’”And that sounds like something a racist would say. Seriously, "a white"? Does my race matter to you because you judge the validity of arguments by the skin color of the people making them? Also, while I haven't read DiAngelo's greater oeuvre, that's a pretty poor quote to pull. The symptoms (anger and fear particularly) and strategies he gives of a white person experiencing "white fragility" could just as easily be…
Comment linking /p/the-elect-neoracists-posing-as-antiracists-e2f?s=r
on “Twitter user sentenced to 150 hours of community service in UK”FWIW the author wrote a post attempting to defend his position as not a straw man https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/is-the-elect-a-mere-col...
Comment linking /p/is-the-elect-a-mere-collection-of?r=3vwvr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter
on “John McWhorter: The Neoracists”There is an opinion that Pevaar/Volkhonosky translations are not up to the mark, and that their text is rather plain. https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/pevear-and-volokhonsky-...
Comment linking /p/pevear-and-volokhonsky-are-indeed
on “Why did Dostoyevsky write Crime and Punishment?”> seem to treat their agoraphobia with the same fervor and source of moral purity as a religion Oh yea, I'm gay and it clicked to me recently that the gay clubs I go to are basically just monasteries now. It used to be that gay people were known for unabashedly saying what couldn't be said (the profane) - it's now the complete opposite, gay people largely are enumerating an endless list of what's considered profane.…
Comment linking /p/the-elect-neoracists-posing-as-antiracists
on “A Misleading CDC Number”She also links to a John McWhorter article. His analysis is even more brutal: https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/is-it-racist-to-expect-... ?
Comment linking /p/is-it-racist-to-expect-black-kids
on “There Is No Such Thing as “White” Math”https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/is-it-racist-to-expect-... https://twitter.com/Michael_Frisch_/status/13635430659868180...
Comment linking /p/is-it-racist-to-expect-black-kids?s=r
on “Florida says it rejected math textbooks for referring to critical race theory”John McWhorter has an interesting take on it (excuse the inflammatory title): https://johnmcwhorter.substack.com/p/no-more-tests-we-should...
Comment linking /p/no-more-tests-we-should-measure-black
on “America Is Flunking Math”
