John McWhorter & Dan Subotnik – The Ibram X. Kendi Scandal

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Glenn Loury

Politics, Society & Culture, News

4.8 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 October 2023

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

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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1:05.1	He's with us this week and we have a special guest that's Dan Sabatnik, who teaches
1:09.4	law at Tural Law Center and writes about critical race theory and the law amongst other things
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