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John McWhorter

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John McWhorter Quotes

Total quotes: 3

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John McWhorter

Birthname

Birthday: October 6, 1965

Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Educated At: Rutgers University, Stanford University, New York University

Nationality: United States Of America

Occupations: Linguist

Total quotes: 3

“We tend to imagine our speech is tidier than it often is.”

— John McWhorter, What Trump’s Speech Says About His Mental Fitness

Tagged: Langauge, Formalism, The Illusion of Structure

“Facial expression and context, which print obscures, made Mr. Trump’s meaning clear.”

— John McWhorter, What Trump’s Speech Says About His Mental Fitness

Tagged: Embedded Communication, Situatedness in Communication

“To Harriot, Buttigieg’s reference to this truism was “lying.” The nut of the issue is that there are other reasons inner-city kids fail to graduate or go to college, such as funding disparities, unequal curriculum resources, and violence.

All of those things are real. Unreal, however, is Harriot’s leap of logic: that in not mentioning those things, Buttigieg was inherently denying their existence, and that in noting the lack of role models, he was blaming black people for their own problems”

— John McWhorter, The Woke Attack on Pete Buttigieg

Tagged: 2020 Election, Pete Buttigieg

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