His racial makeup really has nothing to do with it. You'd get the same from a woke white dude. This is just how Woke pod people argue. This is the air they breathe, the lens through which they see the world.
Yeah, he never explicitly brought up his race. I used to think that he was white, so maybe people viewed it as exactly this. BTW, I did just discover that Matt is 50% non-white (apparently his father was Native Hawaiian and Filipino), more than Gladwell, which is quite ironic. Though not to them.
It's quite liberating. No longer must you attend to inconsequential trivialities like "facts" and "reason."
I wonder what the response would be if someone said: "Aye! Facts and reason are indeed the monopoly of White [sic] people, which is why we should be in charge!"
Some of his strawmen arguments about the Walter Cronkite golden-age of journalism was that "people like himself and Michelle" wouldn't have been allowed in the newsroom and wouldn't have been given a voice/polled by journalists of the day.
Yeah, he never explicitly brought up his race. I used to think that he was white, so maybe people viewed it as exactly this. BTW, I did just discover that Matt is 50% non-white (apparently his father was Native Hawaiian and Filipino), more than Gladwell, which is quite ironic. Though not to them.
I wonder what the response would be if someone said: "Aye! Facts and reason are indeed the monopoly of White [sic] people, which is why we should be in charge!"
He did though.
Some of his strawmen arguments about the Walter Cronkite golden-age of journalism was that "people like himself and Michelle" wouldn't have been allowed in the newsroom and wouldn't have been given a voice/polled by journalists of the day.
You are 100% correct, I forgot about that one.
Like we all forgot about the guards posted at newsrooms checking that you're not too dark or too female to enter them.