McWhorter: Wokeism is a religion; the problem is that it’s a ‘sh***y religion’ HotAir

John McWhorter has been saying for quite a while now that wokeism is a religion. He doesn t mean that it is like a religion he means that it really is one. And that insight has made him pretty pessimistic about the chances of having a conversation with the people driving this. They don t want to discuss, they want to gain adherents and condemn heretics. A couple months ago he gave an interview to Reason which I wrote about here:

We have to understand that you can not reason with people like this, he said. It s very rare that you teach somebody out of their religion and this is a religion. And so to try to talk these people down doesn t work. All they know is that you re a racist and that s all you re going to get. So the idea is not to try to have a dialogue with them about these sorts of issues&I think we simply need to start telling people like this no.

via hotair.com

Quite a few of us have thought this all along.