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John McWhorter

“One can divide antiracism into three waves along the lines that feminism has been. First Wave Antiracism battled slavery and legalized segregation. Second Wave Antiracism, in the 1970s and ’80s, battled racist attitudes and taught America that being racist is a moral flaw. Third Wave Antiracism, becoming mainstream in the 2010s, teaches that because racism is baked into the structure of society, whites’ “complicity” in living within it constitutes racism itself, while for black people, grappling with the racism surrounding them is the totality of experience and must condition exquisite sensitivity toward them, including a suspension of standards of achievement and conduct.”

John McWhorter, Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
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Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America by John McWhorter
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