The Dehumanizing Condescension of 'White Fragility'
submitted 3 years ago by SierraKiloBravo from (theatlantic.com)
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[–]SierraKiloBravo[S] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun - 3 years ago (6 children)
It’s a well written take-down. I’ve not read the book, but I’ve only heard bad stuff about it.
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[–]jet199 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun - 3 years ago (1 child)
Just don't pay for it.
This woman charges $10k a day to go to people's workplaces and harrase them, she doesn't need anymore
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[–]quickbeam 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (2 children)
I read the book and thought there was a lot of good stuff in it at the time - but I also thought Ijeoma Oluo's "So You Want to Talk About Race?" and Ibram X Kendi's "How to Be An Anti-Racist" were both much better. And, you know, written by black people. I'd recommend Kendi's work the most out of all of these. The historical perspective he offers is really great. Though Oluo's book is really good in that it's written in a readable question and answer format. The great thing too, is that Oluo and Kendi disagree on some important things like whether anti-white racism is a thing - Oluo says "no"; Kendi says "yes." Reading one of these books, especially White Fragility and feeling like you now know it all is pretty typical of the American mindset I'd say, though.
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[–]quickbeam 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 3 years ago (0 children)
If you want some fiction I'd also recommend Octavia Butler's Kindred. I also love her books Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents, but those aren't so much about race relations but just really awesome dystopian fiction. I also love The Fire Next Time and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. (About 3-4 years ago I purposely started reading more books by black authors and it shored up a big hole in my education.)
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