Greg Lukianoff

And the most interesting part of the research we did for this was just asking everyone.

Every prominent black conservative and moderate that we knew personally, have you been told that you're not really black for an opinion you had?

Every single one of them was like, oh, yeah.

No, and it's kind of funny because it's like oftentimes white lefties telling them that's like, oh, do you consider yourself black?

John McWhorter talked about having a reporter when he talked about – when he showed that he dissented from some of what he described as kind of like woke racism in his book, Woke Ideas.

The reporter actually is like, so do you consider yourself black?

He's like, what?

He was like, what are you crazy?

Of course I do.

And Coleman Hughes had one of the best quotes on it.

He said, I'm constantly being told that the most important thing to how legitimate my opinion is, is whether or not I'm black.

But then when I have a dissenting opinion, I get told I'm not really black.

So perfect.

Like there's no way to falsify this argument.

That investigation really struck me.

And it's not just dismiss.

We talk about this from a practical standpoint, the way the limitations on, you know, reality.

And one of them is time.

And a lot of cancel culture as cultural norms, as this way of winning arguments without winning arguments, is about running out the clock.

Because by the time you get down to the bottom of the—actually, even to get a couple steps into the perfect rhetorical fortress and, you know,