Columbia University professor of linguistics and social commentator John McWhorter says that although there will always be residual elements, the “era is over in terms of the worst of the woke left.”
Speaking to the New York Post on Thursday to promote his new book “Pronoun Trouble: The Story of Us in Seven Little Words,” McWhorter touched on the pronoun fad that reached its apex during the Biden administration and encapsulated much of what drove America away from those on the political left.
The columnist for The New York Times said the pronoun craze was simply the latest form of virtue signaling from Americans to let everyone know they were down with the latest thing. “That has become a way of quietly indicating that you are a certain kind of enlightened person,” McWhorter said.
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