Bret Weinstein and John McWhorter: George Floyd Protests and Race in America

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Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying

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🗓️ 22 June 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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John Mcwhorter and Bret Weinstein Discuss the protests and evidence surrounding George Floyd's death and how it should be interpreted regarding race in America.

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0:00.0	Hey folks, welcome to the Dark Horse Podcast. I am very glad to be with Dr. John McWorter,
0:14.8	professor at Columbia University in English. He is a specialist in linguistics. His particular
0:21.2	focus is Creole Languages and American History. Do I have that right, John?
0:27.3	You could say that. American Studies and Creole Languages and Language Contact in general and
0:33.2	language change. Yeah. Wonderful. Well, thank you for joining me. I do hope at some point we get to
0:40.8	talk about linguistics and Creole Languages. It is an absolutely fascinating topic. At the moment,
0:46.6	though, I think what is taking place in the Republic is of great importance. And I know you feel
0:53.8	the same way. And so we are going to focus on that today if that's all right by you.
0:59.4	That works for me. All right. Great. So let me lay this out a little bit for you. I am
1:08.3	feeling a bit called at the moment by what is taking place. And I think the urgency of it is
1:15.5	is quite great. Are you also feeling called? Is that a fair assessment?
1:21.5	Yeah. I certainly am being called in terms of suddenly the number of emails and tweets and
1:29.8	various kinds of Facebook messages I'm getting. But yeah, a moment has come when something that's
1:35.0	been kind of burbling since the year 2013 is about when there was a real sea change.
1:40.7	Has really come to a head and left a lot of people who would consider themselves liberal or even
1:47.2	leftist curious as to what this new extreme prosecutorial strain of the left is that now actually
1:57.6	seems to be making its way into mainstream institutions. And so I think there are many of us
2:05.2	whose work and thoughts have been relevant to that over the past six or seven years where
2:09.8	suddenly over the past three weeks, it seems like it's a time when we're needed or that we need
2:15.2	to say something. It's felt almost like a burden to me because things are happening so quickly that
2:19.7	it's hard to have a large picture idea that you can imagine standing the test of time. But I have
2:26.4	to get over the idea that everything you say is going to stand the test of time or you know sound
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