Dr. McWhorter makes a fair point.
By the way, McWhorter and Carson have something in common: they are both absolutely brilliant in their fields. I listened to some McWhorter lectures on linguistics and I’ve never heard a professor who could explain things better.
But Carson is better at selling books, and McWhorter is helping whether he intends to or not.
Mcwhorter is dull and off target. Never heard him complain once when the gay rights agenda was compared to the MKL civil rights era debates.
Never heard him complain when any numerous honest complaints against Obama are always met with charhes of racism.
Now he doesn’t like it when we play by the same rules? Karma is a bitch.
I have McWhorter’s lectures on the History of Language, and I’ve read some of his books. He is a terrific scholar with an enjoyable sense of humor.
His lectures on language have been available from the Teaching Company for years, but his party-line racist shilling for Zero means, not one dime of mine for it or anything from the company.
He likes to split infinitives, that’s for sure. Is his use of the cliche “splitting hairs” an embedded linguistic signal of sorts?