John McWhorter on how to respond to the woke: ‘We need to start telling them no.’ ‘We have to understand that you can not reason with people like this,’ he said. ‘It’s very rare that you teach somebody out of their religion and this is a religion. And so to try to talk these people down doesn’t work. All they know is that you’re a racist and that’s all you’re going to get. So the idea is not to try to have a dialogue with them about these sorts of issues…I think we simply need to start telling people like this no.’