Language, Race, and the Woke Religion | Peter Boghossian & John McWhorter ****

[Valin]

Aug 21 2023

Bestselling author John McWhorter is a linguistics professor at Columbia University, host of “Lexicon Valley,” and a regular guest on “The Glenn Show” with Glenn Loury. John’s writing has been published in many venues, including The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New Republic, City Journal, Time Magazine, and Forbes. He writes a weekly opinion column for The New York Times.

John’s most recent book is “Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America.” He has authored more than twenty books on language and race relations, including “Nine Nasty Words,” “The Language Hoax,” and “Talking Back, Talking Black.”

Chapters

0:00 Intro

3:35 Differences between languages & language learning

20:55 Universality in language

23:00 Tonal languages

25:30 Coastal regions

30:00 Words that don't translate

34:50 Gender and pronouns in language

48:25 Changing meanings of words

59:30 Psychedlics

1:02:00 DEI in the workplace

1:05:40 Superchats and Conversation Wrap Up