Taboo, Wilfred Reilly
Taboo, Wilfred Reilly
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Taboo
10 Facts You Can’t Talk About

Author: Wilfred Reilly

Narrator: Mirron Willis

Unabridged: 8 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/28/2020

Synopsis

It has become virtually impossible to honestly discuss race, gender, and class issues in mainstream American society because if you dare repeat certain “taboo truths,” you’ll be ostracized as a bigot. Professor Wilfred Reilly (author of Hate Crime Hoax and The $50,000,000 Question) fearlessly presents ten of these truths here and investigates why the mainstream is so afraid to acknowledge that they’re true. Among these taboo truths aremen and women are different, although equal;there is no epidemic of police murdering black people;crime rates vary among ethnic groups; andthere are almost no “pay gaps” between big groups, when variables other than race and sex are adjusted for.

About Wilfred Reilly

Wilfred Reilly, associate professor at Kentucky State University, is the author of Hate Crime Hoax and The $50,000,000 Question. His writing has been featured in Commentary, Quillette, USA Today, and the Washington Times, as well as in Academic Questions and other scholarly journals. His research interests include modern American race relations and the use of modern quantitative methods to test “sacred cow” theories.

About Mirron Willis

Mirron Willis—actor of film, stage, and television—is the winner of the prestigious Audie Award for best narration in 2012 and a finalist for the Audie in 2015, as well as the winner of four AudioFile Earphones Awards for his audiobook recordings. He has worked extensively in film and television and on stage with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the Houston Shakespeare Festival, and the Ensemble Theatre, among others. He has recorded some 150 audiobooks, including the Smokey Dalton series by Kris Nelscott and My Song by Harry Belafonte. He resides and records audiobooks on his family’s historic ranch in East Texas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by mark

At the start: I thought I'd challenge my progressive sensibilities by reading a book from The Other Side, so to speak. I have a lot of admiration for the current group of Black contrarians who go against the liberal grain. Maybe not so much because I agree with their positions, but because I admire g......more

Goodreads review by Peter

Please give my Amazon review a helpful vote - [URL not allowed]-re... I am a factual-details, empirical-data person. When someone makes a claim, I typically ask "Evidence?" Opinions are fine, but I want to know what the facts behind the opinions are. I don't just read the headlines,......more

Goodreads review by Timothy

Oh boy. This review is going to be a challenge. As the title says; "10 Facts You Can't Talk About." Okay, here goes; the author, Wilfred Reilly discusses a lot of the myths about race and racism. ( Jeez, even writing that make me think people might get mad at me). He uses plenty of resources to back......more

Goodreads review by Benjamin

"Do you have a right to be offended by facts?" -the pitch. With this book, Reilly enjoys a certain amount of good luck based simply on the current nature of political discourse. By 2021, we’ve all became familiar with how bad the mainstream media are at covering contentious issues and how much worse......more

Quotes

“This is a book America desperately needs. Wilfred Reilly’s boisterous dismantling of some of the most cherished myths that animate the social justice left and the racially antagonistic right is as enjoyable as it is compelling. Taboo is a prodigious and analytical work. Its conclusions about the trajectory of American race relations are encouraging, so it is certain to make a splash. There is nothing purveyors of social discord hate more than good news.” Noah Rothman, associate editor of Commentary and author of Unjust: Social Justice and the Unmaking of America

“Finally, a Black intellectual has come along to challenge leftist dogma and intellectual dishonesty. Nothing is off-limits in this remarkably honest dissertation. He is a no-nonsense, tough but fair-minded scholar…We need more Will Reillys in this country.” Marc J. Defant, author of The New Creationists: The Radical Left’s War on Science, Society, and Rational Thought

“Wilfred Reilly is one of the most interesting and exciting American intellectuals to emerge in our time. I’m in awe of the fearlessness with which Reilly takes on current nostrums on race in his vitally necessary and powerful Taboo.” John Podhoretz, editor of Commentary

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