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Martin Blank's avatar

I think it’s harder to accept anyone took it seriously in the first place. When I first read it I had like a page of notes every couple pages and basically identified it as racist maunderings of a racist ( or even Racist) person who was having a crisis about how they such a wonderful left aligned *totally not racist* person could be so racist.

1). Everyone is a small “r” racist. That is how brains work and how everyone behaves. Brains detect patterns and make generalizations. Black people do this, Serbians, Chinese, Arabs, Yoruba, everyone, it is a part of every culture. Even fake ones. Give a bunch of people green and purple shirts and have them work in teams, and people will start forming beliefs about green shirt people.

It’s not some special preserve of Europeans or Americans, and not a reason for self hatred or flagellation. Most sane people try to just be fair to others and get on with their life.

2). Big R “Racists” aren’t good, but are not at all a big force in our society except from this movement itself hilariously. And Deangelo admits to some wild behaviors/thoughts in the book. Deep racism against both blacks and whites. It is very clear that to her people are their melanin content. Which is um, the core of racism.

Anyway the whole thing is just coved with zero erudition or nuance. More a bad and deluded attempt at self therapy than anything helpful. Plus it is frequently just wrong on the facts and stating things which are false about history etc.

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D.C.K's avatar

https://youtu.be/yR1QL7CJltQ?si=VcCeLFGHnVwUIo_c “Im beginning to think Robin Diangelo was not the brilliant tactician i thought she was”

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