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John Hamilton McWhorter V (/məkˈhwɔːrtər/;[1] born October 6, 1965) is an American linguist with a specialty in creole languages, sociolects, and Black English. He is currently associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University,[2] where he also teaches American studies and music history.[3][4] He is the author of books on race relations, hip-hop and African-American culture.
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I did not comment on the article. You really don't seem to have registered that.I provided a link also to the rest of the article, and you couldn't even get the guy's racial group right. You didn't use your awesome skills of logic to dissect anything in the couple of paragraphs or the article as whole beyond your mistaken perception of a white guy being upset over a black guy rapping in a KFC and subway car.
I commented on the quote. The quote you selected. And my comment has absolutely nothing to do with "knowledge" anyway, it has to do with the obvious logical problems of trying to move from a narrative about a single jerk rapping on the subway to a generalisation about an entire musical genre through to an even bigger statement about what ails African-Americans.
My job in fact involves an awful lot of logic and analysis. Which is pretty much why I can drive a truck through gaping logical holes. I might well find things in "the article" that I agree with or find worthy of consideration, but your insistence that I've somehow managed to comment on an article that I've never seen is a really really bad piece of logic. You know damn well what I commented on. Stop suggesting that I performed the miraculous feat of commenting on material other than the material that you provided...
In linguistics. There's been a whole other thread where someone else has been telling me that you have to have the right kind of qualifications, whereas apparently here just having qualifications is enough.John Hamilton McWhorter V (/məkˈhwɔːrtər/;[1] born October 6, 1965) is an American linguist with a specialty in creole languages, sociolects, and Black English. He is currently associate professor of linguistics at Columbia University,[2] where he also teaches American studies and music history.[3][4] He is the author of books on race relations, hip-hop and African-American culture.
I've got some qualifications. I actually have qualifications in three different fields of study. None of which are relevant to the issue at hand particularly, but hey, I do have some qualifications.
John McWhorter is smarter than me and you, that’s for sure. Is he right about this issue? I’ve no idea
Yeah, in part. Are you "well-informed"? I don't sense that sort of "venom" in Duke Ellington or Motown. What you're essentially saying is that to be "really black and free" requires generous doses of venom and hostility.
Well then you should know better than to comment on and judge an article before actually reading it.
I personally have no idea how long it "should" take to seize, say, a city of 400,000 inhabitants defended by a brigade of ~10-15,000 professional troops (Mariupol), and therefore cannot comment on whether taking 82 days to fully capture the city (all of the populated areas of which had been seized within the first 3 weeks) is a sign of military incompetence or not.
It is now approximately as democratic as Russia is.
It would end the war, and the only claim Putin could make would be that he still had forces in place as before. Not really a victory, though he undoubtedly would present it as such.
As for reparations, that is for the future. One thing at a time...
