John Talks Real Time with Bill Maher
with John McWhorter
Over the past couple years, John has become something of a regular on Real Time, Bill Maher’s HBO talk show. In this clip from our most recent episode, I ask John to reflect on his appearances and his strategy for getting his point across with such limited time. We then go on to discuss the difference between racial equity and racial equality.
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The impossible dream of equity. I can hardly wait to apply it to the NBA, the NFL, country music, and a host of female-dominated professions. Oh, wait; I don't want that at all. I much prefer settings in which merit matters and people got where they are by earning it.
Equality of result is impossible among siblings, yet the social engineers would try to enact it across 340 million people. It's telling people that you are a person who cannot be taken seriously without saying you cannot be taken seriously. By their mindset, women are horribly under-represented in prisons, in dangerous jobs, and in suicides, but I don't see a groundswell of support for equity in those matters.
John was magnificent on Bill Maher. It also just hit me that John is kinda hot.