John McWhorter on MLK's Message, Fixing Our Culture's Focus on Race, and Nasty Words | Ep. 100

The Megyn Kelly Show

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Society & Culture, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 32.8K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Megyn Kelly is joined by John McWhorter, author of "Nine Nasty Words" and Columbia University professor, to discuss the power of the n-word (and other nasty words), systemic racism in America, how we can fix our culture's focus on race, the policing debate in America, MLK's message, why "White Fragility" is "the worst book ever written," and more. Follow The Megyn Kelly Show on all social platforms: Twitter: http://Twitter.com/MegynKellyShow Instagram: http://Instagram.com/MegynKellyShow Facebook: http://Facebook.com/MegynKellyShow Find out more information at: https://www.devilmaycaremedia.com/megynkellyshow

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Megan Kelly Show, your home for open, honest and provocative conversations.
0:07.0	Hey everyone, I'm Megan Kelly, welcome to the Megan Kelly Show.
0:15.0	Oh, we've got a treat for you today.
0:17.0	Professor John McWordor is here.
0:20.6	He's brilliant.
0:22.8	He's so smart.
0:24.2	He is a linguist at Columbia University.
0:27.2	He teaches linguistics among other subjects and we're going to talk to him about what the
0:31.4	hell does that mean?
0:33.4	I didn't totally understand it until just now.
0:36.4	He also is pals with Glenn Lowry and the two of them do the Glenn show together and
0:41.7	do a show on blogging heads TV together.
0:44.6	He has a zone podcast called Lexicon Valley, which this is how it's described.
0:49.8	A show about language from pet peeve syntax and etymology to neuro linguistics and the
0:54.8	death of languages.
0:55.8	So you can check out if you want, but you're going to love him on this show.
0:59.4	I can promise you because in addition to just having authored a book about swears and
1:04.6	other nasty words, the name of the book is nine nasty words.
1:08.3	He's a thinker.
1:09.9	He's a deep thinker on especially issues of race and unlike Glenn, he's not a conservative.
1:15.8	He's a liberal, but he's where I think a lot of us are, which is just in the land of
1:20.1	reason.
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