Ep. 44 Uncomfortable Topics with Heather Mac Donald: Race, Skills Gap, Disparate Impact & the Role of Women

About this episode

Heather Mac Donald discusses uncomfortable truths about race, crime, and feminism.

“I'm going to speak the truth here, and this is not pleasant for people to hear.” In my podcast with author Heather Mac Donald, she says uncomfortable things about race, crime, feminism and more.For example, she says, “The reality of our world today is not white privilege. It's black privilege.” She says many jobs and colleges today unfairly favor black candidates with fewer skills. “Harvard until recently had about 16% blacks in its freshman class,” says Mac Donald, “If it admitted based on academic merit, there would be less than 1%.” She’s been repeatedly called “‘racist’ for saying things like that. “Am I a racist for bringing this up? I am not!” responds Mac Donald, “The facts are the facts … They have been completely kept out of the public eye to keep this systemic lie of racism going on.” In this podcast, more facts you won’t hear covered by mainstream media.

People in this episode

Host: John Stossel

Guest: Heather Mac Donald

Topics covered

• race
• feminism
• skills gap
• disparate impact
• black privilege

Keywords

• race
• black privilege
• feminism
• skills gap
• disparate impact
• Harvard
• systemic racism

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Harvard

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