A 2018 Yale study found that when white liberals talk to Black people, they dumb down their vocabulary. It’s the beating heart of wokeness: Minorities are oppressed and in need of your beneficence. Here is Gavin Newsom literally presenting himself as dumb to appeal to Blacks.
Gov. Newsom to a black crowd in GA: “I am like you. I’m a 960 SAT guy. I can’t read.”
A 2018 Yale study found that when white liberals talk to Black people, they dumb down their vocabulary. It’s the beating heart of wokeness: Minorities are oppressed and in need of your beneficence. Here is Gavin Newsom literally presenting himself as dumb to appeal to Blacks. https://t.co/LakQPhRWGO pic.twitter.com/yQgFabSzx9
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) February 23, 2026
Newsom didn’t just display his own bigotry of low expectations. He literally called Black people stupid, not clever enough to deploy the usual progressive gambit of hiding his insulting views in a self-righteous aura of beneficence. In fact, a 2018 Yale study exposed this penchant as a system-wide feature of white progressives. My latest: Gavin Newsom Just Tried to Relate to Black People by Telling Them That He, Too, Is Stupid




