John McWhorter on "Black Fragility" | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)
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Published 2021-05-07
Linguistics professor and "Nine Nasty Words" author John McWhorter joins Bill Maher for a common-sense conversation about race.
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All Comments (21)
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The fact that people still take anything on Twitter seriously is mind blowing. Why tf are we letting TWITTER dictate a highly nuanced situation? Weird.
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"White Fragility should be used to keep table from wobbling. That's the only use for that book." 🤣
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Black diversity. As a black man, I've been waiting for someone to say that to an audience for a long time.
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John killed it here. He obviously prepared for this, because his lines are razor sharp.
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This is a criminally short interview from a guy who could teach bills audience alot
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I'm a simple man...I see John McWhorter on YouTube and I click Play, every time.
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THANK YOU. As a black person I feel the exact same way but when I look at the reactions and beliefs of my peers it felt like I was going crazy.
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Finally someone authentic and real on national television. I hope he gets more recognition.
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Why is this only 4 minutes, should have given him the whole show.
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There's so many of us (who are black) that are just exhausted every time there's some new issue to rant and complain about. It really is a special sect of us, the overly-"conscious" usually HBCU grad that feels their purpose in life is to inspect for any all reason to air grievances. Even with the Michael Brown type of situations, many of us are so exhausted at street dudes doing dumb stuff to trigger wacky cops, and then the dreadlock army coming in with self righteous protest.
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This was a good conversation. We need more guests like this that bring common sense back to the forefront
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This guy is brilliant and he needs to be on more often. Less political hacks Bill, more free and diverse thinkers!
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Some Black people might agree with the book White Fragility and others may not. It would help the world a lot if people just saw a black person as just that, a black person. Not someone who is a carbon copy of all other black people. The same should be said for all white people, Asian people, Hispanic people and so on!
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He's 55? He looks great, good for him. Great discussion as well.
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Found him decades ago during the ebonics issue. Love guys that call it as they see it. As a linguistics professor, he shocked the right when he broke down scientifically how Black English CAN BE considered a language, then he shocks the left with saying things like "Silence IS NOT violence". Super great guy, have read many of his books and he inspired me to get into linguistics in college. Thank you Dr. McWhorter!
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John and Glenn Loury are voices of reason in a crazy time.
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McWhorter and Lowery have fascinating conversations. I can't understand how they're not more commonly know.
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John McWhorter speaks, I listen. Great to see him on the show.
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I love this guy . A voice of sanity in a world gone mad .
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I think I just found my new hero. As a black man, all I can say is that we need more people like this guy in the black community.
