“Black Intellectual Roundtable” — Bret Weinstein’s DarkHorse Podcast

To borrow the “hideously white” language used by its Director-General to describe the BBC in 2001, and by Andrew Lloyd-Webber to describe British theatre in 2016 — this discussion is hideously “of colour”, 7/8ths hideously male, and 1/8th hideously colourless and Jewish. And there was more insight here than in the thousand inane, virtue-signalling Facebook comments that came across my screen over the past few weeks:

There were too many speakers, but all were insightful, except that I found Thomas Chatterton Williams and Chloé Valdary less acute, and perhaps it is no coincidence that they were the ones supporting reparations.

I hadn’t heard of Glenn Loury, John McWhorter, Kmele Foster, Coleman Hughes or John Wood Jr, but found them all interesting thinkers. A quote from McWhorter:

“What we are seeing is a certain radical strain of anti-racism, that has been present for a long time; it has been present for decades. It’s intellectually mediocre, but it’s extremely frightening to other people because one of its main tenets is that to not agree with it makes you a racist. So, we’re in a society where to be called a racist is essentially equivalent to being called a paedophile.”

Bret Weinstein did well overall —though he sometimes comes across in a way which perhaps he does not intend, when he says things like “You’re not getting me…” He should just explain his point again, more clearly.