
John McWhorter & Dan Subotnik – The Ibram X. Kendi Scandal
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0:00 What’s wrong with critical race theory, anyway?
3:31 Why “black Columbia” pretends that John doesn’t exist
12:08 CRT’s racial power-grab
18:06 Does the Jewish American example apply to African Americans?
23:10 Disguising failure as victimology
32:15 Why Dan thinks the CRT tide is ebbing
39:58 The schadenfreude of the Ibram X. Kendi scandal
51:00 John: “I’m embarrassed for Boston University”
56:40 Glenn: Kendi is just a cog in the fraudulent antiracist machine
1:04:31 The shame of the Kendi scandal
Recorded September 30, 2023
Links and Readings
Dan’s book, Toxic Diversity: Gender, Race, and Law Talk in America
Frantz Fanon’s book, The Wretched of the Earth
Adam Schatz’s forthcoming biography, The Rebel’s Clinic: The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
Glenn’s conversation with Norman Finkelstein
Glenn and John’s conversation with Don Baton
Glenn and John’s conversation with James Beaman
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