This is an excerpt from a spirited and insightful conversation involving Jordan Peterson and John McWhorter. Why embrace Woke racism? Why claim that it is virtually impossible for modern day “black” people to achieve parity with “whites” while ignoring the many modern day successes of “blacks”? This tactic is essentially a convoluted cop-out. Doing the real work to, for example, raise test scores in distressed schools would require a lot of work. Merely declaring “systemic racism” (without doing anything to help people who are struggling) is easy and gets one robust rounds of applause from the like-minded.

Here is the entire discussion: