A Letter on Justice and Open Debate

[jon-nyc]

I’m surprised Klein conceded that much about the book.

Look for McWhorter’s review in the Atlantic.

[Horace]

Yglesias had McWhorter on his podcast today. Good discussion. Oh, the cognitive dissonance that must be managed by high status progressives when they listen to a guy like McWhorter.

Just kidding, I know they'd never listen to a guy like McWhorter.

[jon-nyc]

Seek out McWhorter’s last visit to Glen Loury’s podcast, maybe a week ago. (He’s on regularly)

How did Yglesias react to him?

[Horace]

They never disagreed much. Yglesias is attempting to publicly embrace being not-totally-woke. He commented a couple times in the interview that the stuff they were discussing would seem heretical to many of his friends. I think like a lot of people on the left who are capable of doing some thinking, he thinks the direction is good and justifies a ton of disingenuousness in messaging to that end. But he's smart enough to know how absurd some of it is getting and has chosen not to consider all the opposition evil.

McWhorter enjoys a privilege of being taken seriously thinking what he thinks and saying what he says. Identical thoughts and words from a person with the wrong skin color would not make it onto Yglesias' show. (Of course.)

[jon-nyc]

What’s the name of the podcast?

[Horace]

It's a Vox podcast called The Weeds.

[jon-nyc]

Thanks

[jon-nyc]

Listened to the first 50m or so this morning on my walk.

My first thought was Yglesias really has a voice for blogging....

Also McWhorter is good at changing his tone and style for his audience. He comes off differently with Loury.

[jon-nyc]

And now Yglesias is out.

[Aqua Letifer]

Not too surprising. I wonder to what extent the left will separate itself from the far left in the coming months and year.

[Jolly]

Don't know if it can.

[George K]

What do you think the odds are that he’s going to work in the Biden administration?

[Horace]

I suspect he ran face-first into Ezra's idealogue side.

[Loki]

@Aqua-Letifer said in A Letter on Justice and Open Debate:

Not too surprising. I wonder to what extent the left will separate itself from the far left in the coming months and year.

We might find this is what Biden really meant when he talked about a divided country.