Woke Racism

People of good will on both the left and the right are secretly asking themselves the same question: how has the conversation on race gone so crazy?Bestselling author and acclaimed linguist John McWhorter argues that an illiberal neoracism, disguised as antiracism, is hurting black communities and weakening the social fabric.We''re told to read books and listen to music by people of colour but that wearing certain clothes is ''appropriation.'' We hear that being white automatically gives you privilege and that being black makes you a victim. We want to speak up but fear we''ll be seen as unwoke, or worse, labelled a racist. According to John McWhorter, the problem is that a well-meaning but pernicious form of antiracism has become, not a progressive ideology, but a religion – and one that''s illogical, unreachable, and unintentionally neoracist.In Woke Racism, McWhorter reveals the workings of this new religion, from the original sin of ''white privilege'' and the weaponization of