Woke Racism Defies Logic! 

How fortunate you must be to find a boundless source of baseless assertions that so very conveniently happen to support all your bigotry... /s Every accusation is an admission... "The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell Brandolini's law - "The amount of energy needed to refute BS is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.”

@@IRGeamer - how unfortunate that you seem eager to lash out. get some rest/water and go hug something.

@@IRGeamerI’d genuinely like to debate your thoughts - maybe we could educate one another.

@@IRGeamer The arguments which challenge your WOKE ideology are increasingly becoming more refined , articulate , robust. WOKE’S destruction & failure is imminent. Your irritation is understandable. Continue coping .

@@IRGeamer I was in disbelief until I read the book "On the Origin of Species", then I realized it has nothing to do with belief at all. You discover that Darwin's was a discovery and that he gets the credit for discovering evolution, because he did all the hard work and documentation of it in a format the everyone can read. Many, many people long before Darwin had proposed the idea, but Darwin did all the hard work. It's just like Galileo gets the credit for discovering that Psalms 104 vs 5 could not possibly be correct, because he did the hard work of it and made it available to everyone. The sun doesn't rise, and it certainly doesn't go around the earth. The church made him recant his discovery, or they would have executed him. Had Darwin discovered what he did 300 years before, the same thing would have happened to him as a result of religious authority.

Dude is very old and quite Ill 😉

Well said!

There's also a sense that the people who tear down statues naively believe that only perfect beings deserve statues, which in turn suggests a troubling belief in the possibility of perfect beings, along with an equally troubling penchant for hero worship. Sorry mate, this Churchill statue is here because he helped win an important war, not because we think he was some kind of enlightened guru.

​@@gerardlewis209Churchill deserves a statue for this observation alone: ""Individual Muslims may show splendid qualities, but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith."

@@gerardlewis209 That being said there is always a disconnect in the Republic called America This Republic was founded on Genocide and Slavery thereby creating a Caste System that must be protected by any methods necessary This inherited bias is a mirror white Americans refuse to look at “Mr Carter what do you have?” “The United States of America the rest of you are just visiting.” From the Film ( The Good Shepherd)

Absolutely! 👍

Actually he is not! That claim is way too big.

I love listening to John McWhorter.

@@dezurniprovokator373 ok mr pedant ;) but I agree, even John would say thats a little over hyped :)

​@@elingrome5853 It's not pedantry if it's on point and at scale; it's merely setting the record straight. John is brilliant and wonderful, and doesn't need the hyperbole to be appreciated.

Not really, he is just using basic logic, that we all should be using.

I love it when he discusses linguistics.

Indo-European and Afro Asiatic languages have a common root??? Sanskrit, Avestan, Greek, Latin etc. related to Hebrew? Can that be possible 🤔

It's always fascinating to reflext on language(s). 10:12 I'm not sure though if there is really such a difference between recursion and attribute: "The man who died yesterday was a famous writer." - "who died" has the same function of added information as the adjective "deceased". The sentence could be: "The deceased man was..."

@@cioccolateriaveneziana In a generative analysis, "the deceased man" would be an example of recursion. No shade on McWhorter, but I find that using clausal embedding ("the man who X that Y that Z, etc.") as the go-to example for recursion almost always gives people the wrong idea. Take the following statement: "My sister is a smart scientist". Assign a number to each word in ascending order, 1-2-3-4-5-6. You can get local permutations, like 3-1-2-4-5-6 gets you the interrogative "Is my sister a smart scientist?". But some permutations can't happen because the component parts have fused together, "merged" as it were. "My sister" is stuck together. So is "a smart scientist". And so you could reinterpret the sentence at a higher level of analysis, as 1-2-3, where 1 is "my sister", 2 is "is" and 3 is "a smart scientist". What Chomsky postulated in his minimalist program is that all languages have this merge function. And recursion is a property of merge. I can merge "my" and "sister" to get "my sister", which will then function as its own discrete unit, but then I can use merge again with an adjective, merging "my sister" with "big" to get "my big sister", which will then function as its own discrete unit, etc. So in your example "the deceased man", you've already used merge twice. "The man", then "the deceased man". That's what Chomsky means by recursion. Clausal embedding is one example of recursion, but it's not the only one. And because they always use clausal embedding as the go-to example, this creates the misleading impression that a language without clausal embedding (like Piraha) is a language without recursion, which just isn't true (Piraha has merge, and therefore recursion). In a language without merge, you could imagine generalized linear rules. Say, maybe the way you form the negation of our example sentence ("my sister is not a smart scientist") would be by linearly reversing all the component parts: 6-5-4-3-2-1, i.e. "scientist smart a is sister my". No known language does this. For generativists like Chomsky, this proves that language processing is necessarily hierarchical, not linear. FWIW that's also why he doesn't think LLMs tell us anything about language. Because an LLM could easily produce a linear language where 6-5-4-3-2-1 was the negation of 1-2-3-4-5-6. And if it can produce languages that humans can't, then it's really not telling us anything about human language at all. So he argues anyway.

@@bofbob1 Thank you for the explanation! So my intuition was right, recursion doesn't require clauses. The clauses are a formal mean to express something that can also be expressed in other syntactic ways (like a clause with the function of an attribute, or an adjective with the same function).

Love McWhorter, like Dawkins, but I always learn something when I listen to either of these two.

I have a video on my channel regarding VEGANISM, in case you are interested to watch it. Incidentally, the plural of "person" is "PERSONS", not "people".

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Absolutely! Couldn't have said it better myself.

Most content on the internet and tv about woke and racism is highly sensational, impulsive, prejudiced, annoying, boring, irrational, agressive, polarised, superficial etc. And unfortunately, there aren't many Richard Dawkinses around there. And even worse: the most nuanced and honest people on this planet, like Richard Dawkins, will even be disliked by those oversensitive irrational woke and racism debaters and other figures. It's a strange world.

@@bastiaanvanbeek I'm afraid you're right. The WORST part is that the lunatics on the Right and Left seem to feed each other. They constantly provide the most extreme examples for each other to use to 'prove' just how bad the other side is! And the rest of us get drowned out in all the circus noise.

The so called woke dogma needed to be expressed loudly and aggressively so those old school racist idiots could hear loud and clear 😮

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yeah it is lit!

Looks trippy

Indigenous Australians use sign languages.

@@theflamingone8729 I believe a couple of the North American tribes used sign language during hunting, as do modern soldiers and police in certain circumstances. We are a very adaptable species.

@@joyatodd I think anyone who needs to communicate quietly has a form of sign language, those were good examples and applications you mentioned. The languages the Indigenous use here even cover kinship and lineage, whether maternal or paternal side. I think as with anything, need drives development of language.

Exactly! like imagine escaping a remote island with someone who doesn't speak your language but understands the goal is to escape. 😅

@@DC-zi6se great analogy, every situation that requires a solution could be viewed as escaping a remote island.

Golly gee wiz thanks for being so enlightened

​@@jeremyeblack4987was your response neccessary? What was the point of it?

@@georgekitchen7046 Honestly, at the time it seemed relevant, but now I'm not sure why.

@@jeremyeblack4987 haha

Lol. You really reached high in your compliment. The art of speaking clearly. 😉🫣

On regularly with Glenn Loury

Indeed, but what about mantle and his crust?

Ahh, so that's why he's going on tour then, just to get over his dislike of travelling...

Well said.

The point is that everything "woke" is racist.

Can you define woke for me? No one has been able to yet.

@@rodhmu - - WOKE means ... incontrovertibly anti-American, insane, militantly ignorant, disregarding those in-your-face varieties of truth which the Woke Masters constantly ignore without trepidation. To be Woke is to be prideful beyond the mark. The WOKE are dedicated to essentially one thing - FALSEHOODS - The 100% truth about woke is that it's precisely the opposite of what it claims to be. In effect ... the goals which they achieve by their woke methods achieve precisely the opposite of what they claim to desire and make corrections regarding. Wokesters are fucking hypocrites. Case closed - Being woke is the same as pretending to be enlightened to truth of the highest order. The pretending highlights its existence, because those who favor the more woke ways of doing things are the same people who are by far the most ignorant of the sorts of truths which matter most. They're utterly empty and hollow. Being woke has not a scintilla of humility involved. It's characterized by unbridled narcissism and self righteousness. I doubt that any truly sane person would claim those characteristics are virtues. Being woke is allowing yourself to be told by other people what to think, what to say, and what to do on a daily basis. The woke world can operate ONLY when citizens are gullible stupid imbeciles who unquestionably obey their mindless masters whose values are suspect. Being WOKE is the same as such thoughts & attitudes have always been ... except that it has now become much more EXTREME.

Falsehoods of the WOKE - Shall we examine them? Let's make a list - shall we start with all the "global warming" bullshit? Ha! As if we can actually resolve it, and as if it's actually a dire problem to begin with; next, a woke attitude is tantamount to a disrespect of authority; ignore law enforcement, ignore any sane person in a position of power who actually makes sense ... and yet approving of the idiots who make NO sense whatsoever - Biden for example; those who re-write American history with the actual goal of disseminating LIES regarding American history, our founders, taking a shit on our Founding Documents, and so forth; to be woke is to actually be stupid enough to believe that Trump committed the crimes for which he was convicted - which will unequivocally be entirely resolved at a future date at a future trail which is absent of any idiot Woke judges and jurors; to be woke is to totally disrespect law enforcement, and to ignore crimes among any officers who do indeed happen to be WOKE. Los Angeles and NYC are the cream of the crop regarding this, as well as Chicago, and any very large city in any state. There - did I dumb it down enough for all of you pathetic self-righteous dummies out there? You people really need to be a special brand of Woke Stupid to misunderstand or disagree with me.

Spot on!

NOT if one understands what constitutes religion.

​@@ReverendDr.ThomasReligion: Assuming to know the unknowable and explaining it in terms of the not worth knowing.

@@twntwrs, have you ever considered applying for work editing DICTIONARY entries? 📖 If so, I would STRONGLY urge you to reconsider. 😜

​@@twntwrsThat's basically what McWhorter and Dawkins are doing here.

People are obsessed with words and easily quantifiable measures.

Interesting... I'm a native English speaker and it doesn't seem that way to me! What's your native language?

Did you use Churchill's speech as an example because you saw it on the Stephen Fry fry Language talk, or is it a known thing that both you and Stephen Fry came across independently?

@@Yossarianhoenikker Both independently. I learned it in the 1970s.

I agree, labels are thrown around too easily and can be very polarizing. The left does it too with 'far right' or right wing to refer to people such as John. We are expected to start an article with lots of preconceived ideas. I even see articles in the media that remind you at the start that so and so once posted a video on the far right platform....As you have done, we need to forget the labels and examine what people say. In his book, Woke Racism, he explains why he chose that title. He wouldn't usually attack people with labels. For me, he is a voice of reason. His argument that the current ethos about white patriarchy all being rabidly racist and non whites are all victims is racist in itself and not helpful regarding the great good, is very compelling. I thought the book The New Puritans was also very good, a book that talks about many topics in John's book.

You seem to have missed entirely how Dawkins and McWhorter here coincide on how wokery is precisely when liberals are at their most stupid and dangerous...

lmao imagine being a liberal and a man

It has a little bit of Lawrence Krauss and Alex O'Connor to it, but still it has indeed its own vibe.

Or Lung witchery for short...😅

Interesting! I wonder if it's like that in all Semitic languages.

Usually, the wrong types of people decide to start a podcast or a vlog, and on rare occasions, the best people, like Richard, decide it too.