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

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.”

https://www.amazon.com/WOKE-RACISM/dp/1800751443
https://lexiconvalley.substack.com/
https://glennloury.substack.com/s/the-glenn-show
https://www.nytimes.com/by/john-mcwhorter

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

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