Episode · People I (Mostly) Admire · 2022-04-23
Steve Levitt & John McWhorter: books mentioned on People I (Mostly) Admire
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Steve Levitt discussed Nine Nasty Words : English in the Gutter by John McWhorter. Also mentioned: Woke Racism by John McWhorter.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Nine Nasty Words : English in the Gutter
Discussed“so your playful side comes out in a book that you wrote last year called Nine nasty words and you document the history of various profane words from the pretty tame like damn and hell to the totally Taboo in the form of the n-word”
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Woke Racism
Discussed“After this short break, they’ll return to talk about John's book 'Woke Racism.' So our listener, I know, wrote us an email about the high gas prices we’re currently seeing as a result of Russia’s war with Ukraine.”
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Other mentions in this episode (5) — ad reads, self-promotion and passing references, never counted
Passing Woke Racism
“after this short break they'll return to talk about John's book woke racism”
Plugged Woke Racism
“so woke racism was not a book meant to just complain about the woke it's not a book that Tucker Carlson would have written”
Plugged Woke Racism
“So 'Woke Racism' was not a book meant to just complain about the woke; it's not a book that Tucker Carlson would have written. What I was writing was that black people are being hurt by people who call themselves helping us and that we need to start being able to tell the difference.”
Plugged Woke Racism
“you know what that woman is who I wrote woke racism for that is exactly what I mean”
Plugged Woke Racism
“You know what that woman is? That’s who I wrote 'Woke Racism' for; that is exactly what I mean. That is somebody whose heart is very much in the right place, but she’s so afraid of being called the dirtiest name other than pedophile in our current cultural vocabulary that she’s basically hamstrung.”