Why Racism is Complicated

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.

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Social Workers at Portland State University Attempt to Educate Former Professor Peter Boghossian on Campus “Safety” and “Gender”

Following the unexpected cancellation of his "Reverse Q&A" at Brown University, philosophy professor Peter Boghossian (who recently resigned from his post at Portland State) created an ad hoc event on the streets of Portland. He was attempting to explore the reasoning behind agreement or disagreement with the claim: "There are only two genders." He was approached by a group of social work students who attempted to educate him about campus safety and the meaning of gender.

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Woke Racism, Where Ideology Defeats Science

John McWhorter of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) warns us that four of the mainstays of Woke Anti-racism are long on ideology and short on scientific validity:

- Microaggressions - Diversity Equity & Inclusion Departments - Implicit Bias Testing - Systemic Racism

Ideology twisting scholarship with dangerous consequences is a phenomenon hardly limited to the Soviet Union. It's happening here, right now, in America, in an effort to spread an intolerant orthodoxy masquerading as 'Anti-racism.'

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