Into that gap many religions and pseudoreligions have flooded. As Christianity has withdrawn, so one new religion in particular has found its way into the cultural mainstream, starting off in America and flooding out from there across the Western world. It is what the linguistics teacher from Columbia University John McWhorter has called the new religion of antiracism. This new belief system has much in common with that of other religions in history and is, as McWhorter has written, “a profoundly religious movement in everything but terminology.” It has an original sin (“white privilege”), it
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