Most of the people I see mocking this @JohnHMcWhorter piece are absolutely refusing to engage with anything he actually wrote...https://www.persuasion.community/p/john-mcwhorter-the-neoracists …
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Not saying the piece is above criticism, but if you're going to criticize, maybe actually engage the arguments instead of smugly deriding it as self-evidently Not OK and LOOK AT ME I'M ON THE RIGHT SIDE
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The go-to dismissal of having to justify criticism here is that McWhorter is "strawmanning".... but we can directly witness many of the phenomenons he discusses play out on twitter every day....
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What specific examples and points of McWhorter's do people think are made of straw here? No one says. If they did, it would be harder for the critic to just gaslight us instead of forming real arguments....
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It seems weird to write that much about where anti-racism is going wrong w/o mentioning police violence and incarceration. I don't necessarily disagree with everything but it seems like, for McWhorter, the sideshow is the show.
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