John McWhorter – June 2024 Q&A

0:00 Why the different format?

4:04 Joe asks John to account for his “emotional and irrational conclusions” about Trump and his recent conviction

15:28 Ground News ad

17:49 Did John really mean it when he implied he hoped someone would assassinate Trump?

23:00 Lauren wants John to justify his “casual endorsement” of gender fluidity in pronoun usage

32:37 Jerry asks why “external factors” like poverty are often used to explain lagging African American scholastic performance, those factors haven’t hindered them from achieving wildly disproportionate success in the cultural realm

38:34 Patrick calls out Glenn for his frequent use of the word “irregardless”

41:26 kgweiland asks Glenn if the Pamela Foster story in my memoir was “yours to share”

46:17 Scott Alex has some technical questions about linguistics for John

50:01 Jakon Joi asks for advice dealing with the tragic, possibly racially motivated murder of her father

Recorded June 23, 2024

Links and Readings

June 2024 thread of subscriber questions

John talking about Trump voters on Real Time in 2023

Daniel Bessner and Glenn on Real Time in 2023

Richard Dawkins interviews John

John’s book, The Language Hoax: Why the World Looks the Same in Any Language

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