BTW, what does that escalator cartoon mean? That no white kid was ever humiliated by a harried white woman? D--n, I hated my female elementary school teachers!
Nikole Hannah-Jones also came out of semi-retirement to register her dislike of the dead white man. (She’s on payroll at the New York Times but her previous piece was in December 2024, “Frankie Beverly created America’s No. 1 cookout song”.)
You can imagine the eye rolls management has to get if they try to force any cost cutting or tell someone they don't have the budget for a certain project.
Apart from the bit of Holodomor that happened to all those budding nazis in Lvov who apparently suffered terribly. That is talked about all the time.
And the DeKulakistion campaign that caused hunger rght across Russia and Kazakhstan is also frequently mentioned in history books, but apparently that doesn't count.
It counts whether it occured in Northern Kazakhstan, Russia, Belorus or Ukraine. A lot of it happened to Novorossiya, that is currently returning to Russia...
Americans are fed up with the entire region. We shed blood and treasure for many decades to drag their countries into the modern world, and have nothing to show for it. Fracking means we no longer have to care, so we don't.
No crazy comment - every single act of US in ME has been in support of Israel.
The plan was there before 9/11, that was just an opportunity to go crazy (and of course 9/11 was committed by mostly Saudis citizens, not by any of the nations the US targeted.
Obama was arming the terrorists no secret there "AQ is on our side".
And now you reckon US has all the oil it wants just what the hell is it doing now? Regime in the only country with bigger oil reserves than Saudi - Venezuela.
Sure thing. When=always, including 3 hours prior to this. Let me know when you learn what "genocide" means and stop trying to steal the emotional impact of specific words to gain sympathy for the cause of a horrible group of people who bring defeat upon themselves then expect the rest of the world to hand them a victory in a war they started against a superior foe.
Well get the facts right of the 1200 that died on oct 7th approx 200 were Hamas, 500 killed by Hamas and 500 killed by IDF who enacted their Hannibal procedure to kill their own if facing the risk of being hostages (confirmed in Haaretz).
The 50k is the hospital count - that is dead bodies actually counted at hospitals and totalled by the Gaza health authorities. The count of Hospitals on the other hand is now 2 - it used to be 35.
Real death count is far far far higher. 500,000 is a good guess.
US involvement - well try GHF the US charity supposed to give aid that ended up shooting Gazans. Every bullet in every child's brain has been paid for by USA - your taxes.
US could not be more involved. Totally yuour problem - ask ANYONE in Asia, ME, S America, Africa. This is all US responsibility. And all it would take is a phonecall to say no more funding of Israel.
I guess Coates is asking Klein why couldn't he just shut up about it and ignore Kirk's killing?
This is the exchange, starting at about 6:10:
KLEIN: I worry we are already in a cycle of political violence of mimemetic violence. I think about Pelosi. I think about Shapiro. I think about the near assassination on Trump. I think about when after that happened I thought about me. I thought about you. I thought about all kinds of people I know. Right. So I do think there's just something about when violence takes hold that you, like, that there's something about it that it begins to breach all lines.
COATES: Yeah. So I guess—
KLEIN: That was part of my reaction too.
COATES: You know, I think all of that is understandable, but I guess ... was silence not an option?
KLEIN: Yeah. Silence to me was not grieving with people. I, like, I felt it was important. As someone who is liberal, as someone who has a voice, that there are moments like that. Like I really do feel ... it's funny because you said something like this in in your piece, but it was a little bit more off-handed, that political violence like that is an attack on us all, right? And that in that moment he creates for me—even if it's very temporary—that it's important in a moment like that to to sort of yeah come together to to to try to see other people in their grief to try to cool things down just a little bit. I guess given everything you read that Charlie Kirk said and we probably don't have very different views on the value of the things he said. Um, why do you think he was [garbled word, maybe "wrong", maybe "winning"]?
COATES: [Long self-absorbed diatribe about his love for the Obamas whom no one tried to assassinate, followed by his hate for "hatemonger" Kirk, who must have had it coming.]
The conversation seems important for showing a very smart Jewish guy realizing in real time that ceding moral leadership of his party to a comically self-absorbed black midwit was an extraordinarily bad idea.
“Was silence not an option?” and “All is fog”: the Ta-Nehisi Coates story.
To be fair, they do have a self-interest in this. If it's fine to shoot Charlie Kirk for his opinions, well, who might be next on that chopping block? Their entire world is online opinionizers. If Kirk is fair game, who isn't?
As Klein tries to explain to Coates:
"I think about when after that happened I thought about me. I thought about you. I thought about all kinds of people I know."
But Coates is too dull and self-absorbed to get it. He's just a one-note NPC: "blackity-black-black!"
I hope Ezra leaned a lesson from that interaction with a belligerent, antisocial, and confused black man - start lifting and get that concealed carry license.
You should read the excerable middle aged, mid wit Guardian "columnist Zoe Williams, locus classicus of AWFL, who tried almost every exercise type, before concluding that exercise and fitness made you right wing. Imagine, self discipline and self respect are right coded, except for exceptional Zoe.
I once had a college professor who had his head so far up his ass that he claimed unironically that by definition only liberals could be intellectuals. He was also a fan of defining liberal positions as "love" and conservative positions as "hate". Making matters worse is that I took his class in the summer of 2020 when a good portion of the middle had lost their minds so he had no one to push back on him.
He is tenured so I knew it would have no practical effect on him, but on my course evaluation I referred to him as a "self-hating white person". I found out through back channels that he was pissed as he (metaphorically) cried about it to my classmates and one of them was gracious enough to send me the email chain
I'd like to know what kind of mood Steve was in when he wrote that free Taki mag piece on Coates.
No consistent income but still summoned the IRS? I hope someone competent and trustworthy has managed his money since he hit it big. Maybe he did get beat up enough early on to develop CTE.
This can happen if you get a couple of well paid jobs but forget to set aside the tax portion. Then suddenly you've eaten through all the money and have nothing for the IRS. Hence summonses.
You might want to ease up on Mr. Beck. You were writing three years before the George Floyd induced Summer of Love but Critical Theory (of which Critical Race Theory is a subset) was all the rage that year and in the years that followed. And whence Critical Theory? The Frankfort School.
It takes social theories (Critical Theory, Marxism, Structuralism, Post-Modernism, etc.) decades to work their way through our institutions. That doesn’t mean that their origin/source doesn’t matter or has diminished influence. Look at how Free Traders keep referring to Adam Smith’s 1776 The Wealth of Nations (even though Smith never imagined that wage arbitrage would be the most important competitive advantage).
There are movement cells that meet all over the world on a weekly basis who derive their understanding of the world from events that occurred almost two thousand years ago. The difference between the effects of that movement and Coates’ social theories is that members of each generation must embrace and apply those events to themselves; they are not a miasma floating in the air, such as structural racism, to keep Coates and those of his ilk down.
Near the end of his time at Fox News, Beck began listing and discussing the 20th century's political thinkers who have done the most harm to America. He did it on a chalkboard. People noticed that most were Jewish. Also, Beck brought up George Soros's name a lot. As I mentioned, this was shortly before the cancellation of his show.
Your throwaway line at the end is important for recognizing reality. I sometimes put it this way - if American Blacks were a country it would be the most prosperous Black-majority country in the world. You can debate what that means, but it means something.
Yeah, it would be for about 3 days until all the red and yellow status lights began flashing and the beepers and sirens started going off all over the place. That's what the "something" means.
With the exception of John McWhorter, I cannot think of a black commentator on the left with anything that could be considered an intellect or who doesn’t spend all of their efforts on race or other grievance politics. Obviously this was no impediment to having a noteworthy career (in fact it’s a plus) but I feel that our culture is starting to finally lose some of its heightened concern for black concerns, sensitivities, or just not making them look bad.
Black journalist Abby Phillip’s show on CNN’s format seems to be invite a clutch of diverse progressives on to get verbally battered by the extremely white Scott Jennings. Bitchy gay former WaPo writer Jonathan Capehart has a show on MSNBC with another gay black guy named Eugene Daniels, who looks like Jordan Peele playing a garish send up of, well, a self important gay black guy. The grotesque Symone Sanders also hosts a show on MSNBC with the neutered former RNC chair Michael Steele. I am sure the producers think they are elevating “black voices” but the practical effect is to underscore what massive outliers they are.
There will always be a market for the TNCs of the world for white ethno masochists, but I believe the broader culture is starting to tune them out.
John really is a 1 in a million. I respect just about everything he writes/says. I think the episodes where he and Glenn discuss the Trayvon, Micheal Brown (one by Eli Steele) and the newer one about Floyd (burning of Minneapolis?) documentaries are essential viewing for those who think that the right wing narrative of those events is unsupported. You can tell both of them are sincerely shocked at learning pieces of those cases that went completely unreported.
I’m a fan of Mr. McWhorter’s for his linguistics work. He’s a nerd about language in exactly the same way I am, so I’m enthusiastic about his books and Great Courses presentations. He can be bravely outspoken, as when he said publicly that he got first job (at Columbia, I believe) as a result of affirmative action. He once said that he feels no connection to Africa, even though he is John McWhorter V and JM I was a slave.
The dissonance comes in because, as his TDS case indicates, his premises are correct, but then he doesn’t profess the obvious conclusions.
Very true. And the shame of it, in an exceptional case like his, is that he might have been the most qualified applicant, but one would never know and has ample reason to suspect otherwise. Schrodinger’s candidate.
Agree. One of the most entertaining things in recent years is how they both would constantly dump on Kendi for being an obvious moron, and I don't think they feel TNC is really very impressive either. I don't always agree with them but they are thoughtful people, which I really cannot say about 95% of the people of any stripe one typically sees on TV or who are regular columnists in the major media outlets.
I saw McWhorter in the airport last year and wanted to say hello but he was just minding his business reading a book so I left him alone.
He is a down-to-earth guy, though! One time on his podcast he was asking for donations on behalf of an important linguistics research center that happens to be housed at my husband’s alma mater. My husband emailed him (leading for some reason with ‘my wife is a big fan’) and he responded within minutes.
Just what heinous crime did you commit to be sentenced to such a steady diet of gay black lefties on MSNBC? And perhaps there's an antidote kicking around somewhere to get your mind right about John McWhorter, the self-admitted beneficiary of racial preference and just about the furthest thing from an intellectual in the entire online and television commentariat of any creed or and color.
No position about McWhorter as an "intellectual" but like Steve he's a "noticer" from way back. In his 2000 book "Losing The Race," he said that black people "seem to feel the rules don't apply to us," which is really almost the entire domestic political ballgame.
Ive never read or listened to anything that guy has said. And after reading this he is worse than I thought. Also funny comparison to Glenn Beck, he is also someone I’ve completely ignored out of pure instinct.
Coates is one of those black "intellectuals" that no one really thinks is all that smart but liberal Whites sure do love having his books prominently displayed to signal to their friends that they are Good People.
A major part of Coates' problem that he won't admit is that he is actually far more comfortable around nerdy whites than his own people, so he has to totally overdo the white hate to feel like he's not a sellout plus it leads to praise and paychecks.
Jordan Peele is the same - son of a white woman who raised him and absent black father, married a white lady, film career is about centering blacks. Obvious massive over compensation.
I'm reminded of when Klein had his spat with Sam Harris, and he mentioned that Klein's guests were "all white men" and that he should have someone like "Ta-nehisi Coates on". Harris didn't seem all that familiar with him. But I remember thinking that Klein had sort of exposed himself with that comment: there is virtually no world in which Coates would have been on that podcast. Klein was acting in clear bad faith. In fact, a constant criticism that McWhorter and Loury have of Coates is his unwillingness to talk to others who disagree with him (Klein had plenty of opportunity to show Coates lack of depth as a thinker recently, and choose not to out of "respect").
This shouldn't have been all the surprising- Klein was still running vox at the time and had pulled a pretty insincere stunt where he had Turkenheimer et al publish a piece saying that Charles Murray's positions (who Harris had just had on as a guest) was not well supported by the "science". I think Steve may even have a piece about the incident (spoiler alert: Klein refused to publish a Richard Haier comment).
He is perhaps best described by Foghorn Leghorn: "That boy ain't right".
Please, a book of your collected book reviews!
BTW, what does that escalator cartoon mean? That no white kid was ever humiliated by a harried white woman? D--n, I hated my female elementary school teachers!
Steve, you could be a megastar if you'd just stop noticing!
He has wrong skin color.
Nikole Hannah-Jones also came out of semi-retirement to register her dislike of the dead white man. (She’s on payroll at the New York Times but her previous piece was in December 2024, “Frankie Beverly created America’s No. 1 cookout song”.)
The arrangement she has with the Times (presumably high salary with extraordinarily low output) has to cause some resentment in the newsroom.
You can imagine the eye rolls management has to get if they try to force any cost cutting or tell someone they don't have the budget for a certain project.
Isn’t this the whole point of DEI?
Give blacks, especially black women, positions and money they didn’t earn through merit to make up for past racial abuses? It’s reparations in a way.
Kirk was just victim 500,001.
Why does his death matter to anyone?
Anyone noticed that western media is covering up a genocide with full US involvement?
Biggest undiscussed mass psychological phenomen since the time of slavery and indian killing..
Genocide? The Africa thing...? Or the Asian thing...?
The Eastern European thing. 1.7M missing male Ukrainians.
Ah, yes. Very dispiriting.
As with Holodomor or with Holocaust, there is a culture of silence on this topic.
Ah, so silence was an option, in this case.
Apart from the bit of Holodomor that happened to all those budding nazis in Lvov who apparently suffered terribly. That is talked about all the time.
And the DeKulakistion campaign that caused hunger rght across Russia and Kazakhstan is also frequently mentioned in history books, but apparently that doesn't count.
It counts whether it occured in Northern Kazakhstan, Russia, Belorus or Ukraine. A lot of it happened to Novorossiya, that is currently returning to Russia...
The Gaza thing. You can say it
Americans are fed up with the entire region. We shed blood and treasure for many decades to drag their countries into the modern world, and have nothing to show for it. Fracking means we no longer have to care, so we don't.
"we shed blood and treasure for many decades to drag their countries into the modern world"
I think you misspelled "to destroy Israel's enemies".
hahaha - you armed al qaeda to destroy these countries because they thought Israel killing palestinians was wrong.
7 nations in 5 years was the plan - well 6 of them are down already.
Civilised mediucm wealth countries like Libya and Syria are nightmares.
Syria is run by an al qaeda terrorist, Libya has slave markets.
America Fxxxed up the whole region for Israel and most Americans don't have a clue what they did.
Oil was the driving motivator until 9/11. BO was definitely not helping Israel.
"The Spice must flow!"
No crazy comment - every single act of US in ME has been in support of Israel.
The plan was there before 9/11, that was just an opportunity to go crazy (and of course 9/11 was committed by mostly Saudis citizens, not by any of the nations the US targeted.
Obama was arming the terrorists no secret there "AQ is on our side".
And now you reckon US has all the oil it wants just what the hell is it doing now? Regime in the only country with bigger oil reserves than Saudi - Venezuela.
Cheese and crackers dude, give it a rest. I'll tell your Qatari payroll master you did a swell job!
Let me know when you have something intelligible to say.
Sure thing. When=always, including 3 hours prior to this. Let me know when you learn what "genocide" means and stop trying to steal the emotional impact of specific words to gain sympathy for the cause of a horrible group of people who bring defeat upon themselves then expect the rest of the world to hand them a victory in a war they started against a superior foe.
oh the dickhead Gaza isn't a genocide becuase 6m aren't dead (yet).
Have you tried that on a human being off line?
But thanks for clarifying what kind of creature you have become/
Okay, Arabs murder 1200 Jews and Jews murder 50,000 Arabs in retaliation (they are not yet finished as I understand it).
Short version: not our problem, not our neighborhood.
Butt out.
Well get the facts right of the 1200 that died on oct 7th approx 200 were Hamas, 500 killed by Hamas and 500 killed by IDF who enacted their Hannibal procedure to kill their own if facing the risk of being hostages (confirmed in Haaretz).
The 50k is the hospital count - that is dead bodies actually counted at hospitals and totalled by the Gaza health authorities. The count of Hospitals on the other hand is now 2 - it used to be 35.
Real death count is far far far higher. 500,000 is a good guess.
US involvement - well try GHF the US charity supposed to give aid that ended up shooting Gazans. Every bullet in every child's brain has been paid for by USA - your taxes.
US could not be more involved. Totally yuour problem - ask ANYONE in Asia, ME, S America, Africa. This is all US responsibility. And all it would take is a phonecall to say no more funding of Israel.
Ostrich head in sand.
Coates to Ezra Klein on commenting on a political assassination at a university campus:
“Was silence not an option?”
I guess Coates is asking Klein why couldn't he just shut up about it and ignore Kirk's killing?
This is the exchange, starting at about 6:10:
KLEIN: I worry we are already in a cycle of political violence of mimemetic violence. I think about Pelosi. I think about Shapiro. I think about the near assassination on Trump. I think about when after that happened I thought about me. I thought about you. I thought about all kinds of people I know. Right. So I do think there's just something about when violence takes hold that you, like, that there's something about it that it begins to breach all lines.
COATES: Yeah. So I guess—
KLEIN: That was part of my reaction too.
COATES: You know, I think all of that is understandable, but I guess ... was silence not an option?
KLEIN: Yeah. Silence to me was not grieving with people. I, like, I felt it was important. As someone who is liberal, as someone who has a voice, that there are moments like that. Like I really do feel ... it's funny because you said something like this in in your piece, but it was a little bit more off-handed, that political violence like that is an attack on us all, right? And that in that moment he creates for me—even if it's very temporary—that it's important in a moment like that to to sort of yeah come together to to to try to see other people in their grief to try to cool things down just a little bit. I guess given everything you read that Charlie Kirk said and we probably don't have very different views on the value of the things he said. Um, why do you think he was [garbled word, maybe "wrong", maybe "winning"]?
COATES: [Long self-absorbed diatribe about his love for the Obamas whom no one tried to assassinate, followed by his hate for "hatemonger" Kirk, who must have had it coming.]
https://youtu.be/UaeoDlLNnok?si=Wa9nIAvIplelVhAX&t=376
The conversation seems important for showing a very smart Jewish guy realizing in real time that ceding moral leadership of his party to a comically self-absorbed black midwit was an extraordinarily bad idea.
“Was silence not an option?” and “All is fog”: the Ta-Nehisi Coates story.
The most mid-wit of mid-wit conversations ever.
Klein doesn't seem to be significantly better than Kamala in extemporaneous speech.
To be fair, they do have a self-interest in this. If it's fine to shoot Charlie Kirk for his opinions, well, who might be next on that chopping block? Their entire world is online opinionizers. If Kirk is fair game, who isn't?
As Klein tries to explain to Coates:
"I think about when after that happened I thought about me. I thought about you. I thought about all kinds of people I know."
But Coates is too dull and self-absorbed to get it. He's just a one-note NPC: "blackity-black-black!"
I hope Ezra leaned a lesson from that interaction with a belligerent, antisocial, and confused black man - start lifting and get that concealed carry license.
He looks like he’s been spending more time in the gym: https://share.google/images/MoB53Tm65zfAfVcEf
Does that coincide with a rightward shift in his politics?
It would have to be, seeing as fitness & bodybuilding are markers of fascism! 😍
You should read the excerable middle aged, mid wit Guardian "columnist Zoe Williams, locus classicus of AWFL, who tried almost every exercise type, before concluding that exercise and fitness made you right wing. Imagine, self discipline and self respect are right coded, except for exceptional Zoe.
I once had a college professor who had his head so far up his ass that he claimed unironically that by definition only liberals could be intellectuals. He was also a fan of defining liberal positions as "love" and conservative positions as "hate". Making matters worse is that I took his class in the summer of 2020 when a good portion of the middle had lost their minds so he had no one to push back on him.
He is tenured so I knew it would have no practical effect on him, but on my course evaluation I referred to him as a "self-hating white person". I found out through back channels that he was pissed as he (metaphorically) cried about it to my classmates and one of them was gracious enough to send me the email chain
I'd like to know what kind of mood Steve was in when he wrote that free Taki mag piece on Coates.
No consistent income but still summoned the IRS? I hope someone competent and trustworthy has managed his money since he hit it big. Maybe he did get beat up enough early on to develop CTE.
This can happen if you get a couple of well paid jobs but forget to set aside the tax portion. Then suddenly you've eaten through all the money and have nothing for the IRS. Hence summonses.
Yeah, I figured he blew much of it on lottery tickets.
Definitely on brand for Steve
You might want to ease up on Mr. Beck. You were writing three years before the George Floyd induced Summer of Love but Critical Theory (of which Critical Race Theory is a subset) was all the rage that year and in the years that followed. And whence Critical Theory? The Frankfort School.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/critical-theory/
It takes social theories (Critical Theory, Marxism, Structuralism, Post-Modernism, etc.) decades to work their way through our institutions. That doesn’t mean that their origin/source doesn’t matter or has diminished influence. Look at how Free Traders keep referring to Adam Smith’s 1776 The Wealth of Nations (even though Smith never imagined that wage arbitrage would be the most important competitive advantage).
There are movement cells that meet all over the world on a weekly basis who derive their understanding of the world from events that occurred almost two thousand years ago. The difference between the effects of that movement and Coates’ social theories is that members of each generation must embrace and apply those events to themselves; they are not a miasma floating in the air, such as structural racism, to keep Coates and those of his ilk down.
Near the end of his time at Fox News, Beck began listing and discussing the 20th century's political thinkers who have done the most harm to America. He did it on a chalkboard. People noticed that most were Jewish. Also, Beck brought up George Soros's name a lot. As I mentioned, this was shortly before the cancellation of his show.
Beck single-handedly killed "just asking questions" as a rhetorical device; because of him it is now a sign of a smug, self-important douchebag
Your throwaway line at the end is important for recognizing reality. I sometimes put it this way - if American Blacks were a country it would be the most prosperous Black-majority country in the world. You can debate what that means, but it means something.
Yeah, it would be for about 3 days until all the red and yellow status lights began flashing and the beepers and sirens started going off all over the place. That's what the "something" means.
With the exception of John McWhorter, I cannot think of a black commentator on the left with anything that could be considered an intellect or who doesn’t spend all of their efforts on race or other grievance politics. Obviously this was no impediment to having a noteworthy career (in fact it’s a plus) but I feel that our culture is starting to finally lose some of its heightened concern for black concerns, sensitivities, or just not making them look bad.
Black journalist Abby Phillip’s show on CNN’s format seems to be invite a clutch of diverse progressives on to get verbally battered by the extremely white Scott Jennings. Bitchy gay former WaPo writer Jonathan Capehart has a show on MSNBC with another gay black guy named Eugene Daniels, who looks like Jordan Peele playing a garish send up of, well, a self important gay black guy. The grotesque Symone Sanders also hosts a show on MSNBC with the neutered former RNC chair Michael Steele. I am sure the producers think they are elevating “black voices” but the practical effect is to underscore what massive outliers they are.
There will always be a market for the TNCs of the world for white ethno masochists, but I believe the broader culture is starting to tune them out.
John really is a 1 in a million. I respect just about everything he writes/says. I think the episodes where he and Glenn discuss the Trayvon, Micheal Brown (one by Eli Steele) and the newer one about Floyd (burning of Minneapolis?) documentaries are essential viewing for those who think that the right wing narrative of those events is unsupported. You can tell both of them are sincerely shocked at learning pieces of those cases that went completely unreported.
I hope you didn't respect his public wish for Trump's assassination.
I thought that was a bit out of character for him. Shows that even the reasonable will have bouts of TDS though.
I’m a fan of Mr. McWhorter’s for his linguistics work. He’s a nerd about language in exactly the same way I am, so I’m enthusiastic about his books and Great Courses presentations. He can be bravely outspoken, as when he said publicly that he got first job (at Columbia, I believe) as a result of affirmative action. He once said that he feels no connection to Africa, even though he is John McWhorter V and JM I was a slave.
The dissonance comes in because, as his TDS case indicates, his premises are correct, but then he doesn’t profess the obvious conclusions.
I appreciated his honesty about AA. Note he didn’t give up his position though to someone more qualified. Yet TNCs of the world expect the reverse.
Very true. And the shame of it, in an exceptional case like his, is that he might have been the most qualified applicant, but one would never know and has ample reason to suspect otherwise. Schrodinger’s candidate.
Agree. One of the most entertaining things in recent years is how they both would constantly dump on Kendi for being an obvious moron, and I don't think they feel TNC is really very impressive either. I don't always agree with them but they are thoughtful people, which I really cannot say about 95% of the people of any stripe one typically sees on TV or who are regular columnists in the major media outlets.
I saw McWhorter in the airport last year and wanted to say hello but he was just minding his business reading a book so I left him alone.
He is a down-to-earth guy, though! One time on his podcast he was asking for donations on behalf of an important linguistics research center that happens to be housed at my husband’s alma mater. My husband emailed him (leading for some reason with ‘my wife is a big fan’) and he responded within minutes.
Don't forget Glenn Loury!
I don't think he is really on the left, which is why I didn't mention him.
Just what heinous crime did you commit to be sentenced to such a steady diet of gay black lefties on MSNBC? And perhaps there's an antidote kicking around somewhere to get your mind right about John McWhorter, the self-admitted beneficiary of racial preference and just about the furthest thing from an intellectual in the entire online and television commentariat of any creed or and color.
No position about McWhorter as an "intellectual" but like Steve he's a "noticer" from way back. In his 2000 book "Losing The Race," he said that black people "seem to feel the rules don't apply to us," which is really almost the entire domestic political ballgame.
Coates is an example of what happens when someone nurtures hatred in their soul. They become hatred personified, or in other words, evil
https://torrancestephensphd.substack.com/p/if-jean-paul-sartre-was-black-hed
Ive never read or listened to anything that guy has said. And after reading this he is worse than I thought. Also funny comparison to Glenn Beck, he is also someone I’ve completely ignored out of pure instinct.
Coates is one of those black "intellectuals" that no one really thinks is all that smart but liberal Whites sure do love having his books prominently displayed to signal to their friends that they are Good People.
A major part of Coates' problem that he won't admit is that he is actually far more comfortable around nerdy whites than his own people, so he has to totally overdo the white hate to feel like he's not a sellout plus it leads to praise and paychecks.
Jordan Peele is the same - son of a white woman who raised him and absent black father, married a white lady, film career is about centering blacks. Obvious massive over compensation.
Hating Whitey sells books, probably not more complicated than that.
I'm reminded of when Klein had his spat with Sam Harris, and he mentioned that Klein's guests were "all white men" and that he should have someone like "Ta-nehisi Coates on". Harris didn't seem all that familiar with him. But I remember thinking that Klein had sort of exposed himself with that comment: there is virtually no world in which Coates would have been on that podcast. Klein was acting in clear bad faith. In fact, a constant criticism that McWhorter and Loury have of Coates is his unwillingness to talk to others who disagree with him (Klein had plenty of opportunity to show Coates lack of depth as a thinker recently, and choose not to out of "respect").
This shouldn't have been all the surprising- Klein was still running vox at the time and had pulled a pretty insincere stunt where he had Turkenheimer et al publish a piece saying that Charles Murray's positions (who Harris had just had on as a guest) was not well supported by the "science". I think Steve may even have a piece about the incident (spoiler alert: Klein refused to publish a Richard Haier comment).