Episode · The Jordan B. Peterson Podcast · 2022-04-04
Books mentioned on 241. How Anti-Racism Is Hurting Black America | John McWhorter
This episode was recorded on September 27th, 2021. Dr.
Jordan Peterson recommended Woke Racism by John McWhorter.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Woke Racism
Woke Racism by John McWhorter is a critical examination of contemporary social justice movements, arguing that a new dogmatic ideology functions similarly to a traditional religion and negatively impacts Black America.
Recommended“and because one book a year isn't enough he's coming out with a new one called woke racism how a new religion is betraying black america”
Where to get it
Other mentions in this episode (6) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
“he's the author of over 20 books that's a lot of books some on language and some on race most recently the best selling nine nasty words which was released in early 2021”
Passing Losing the Race
“he's the author of over 20 books that's a lot of books some on language and some on race most recently the best selling nine nasty words which was released in early 2021”
Passing The Power of Babel
“he's the author of over 20 books that's a lot of books some on language and some on race most recently the best selling nine nasty words which was released in early 2021”
“some on language and some on race most recently the best selling nine nasty words which was released in early 2021”
Plugged The language hoax
“so i wrote the language hoax because it really started to stick in my crawl that a lot of people end up believing this media kind of morphianism as opposed to academic psychological warfare ism which is you know irrefutably true and i was i was bemused i'm glad that book got around more than i expected”
Plugged Woke Racism
“and i'm not just trying to yank it back to woke racism to push the book but i'm really thinking about this my book is about people it's actually i'm known for saying things black people don't like black a lot of black people aren't going to like woke racism”