Robin DiAngelo makes a good point that enjoying breakfast is white AF and if you're serious about ending inequality you will drone deliver a basket of Egg McMuffins to every housing unit in the ghetto. Her book is filled with concrete proposals like this. 5 stars.
Page 73: "All right you internet shitheads. You absolute dickbrains. I'll grant you that my speaking fees are a product of white privilege. But in return do me a favor and Google the following YouTube video: 'How To Delete Your Account'."
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Page 114 has a picture of her knocking out Muhammad Ali. The caption reads: "This is what my haters want to see. Me and black celebrities not getting along. Sorry, while I *could* do this to Ali and other similar things to other black leaders, I won't. They're my friends."
Page 817 is just the following meme template along with this caption: "Honestly so sick of memes being created by white geeks who look like my own nerd ass kids. Take this one for example: Ain't no way a brother created this."
Page 4,139 fleshes out her proposal for a social media platform that will "reverse the levers of power in this country," but she perhaps goofs a bit by calling it "Black Facebook" since, when said phonetically, people might hear "Blackface Book"
Hope you enjoyed my review of her latest book. I always try to be honest in my judgments, and, if I'm being honest, this is up there with Plato's Republic and Rick Warren's The Purpose-Driven Life
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Hard not to conclude that actually caring about publishing standards and being editorially measured isn't all just a big dumb joke when what the people really want is "EVERY PERSON I TALK TO TELLS ME THE VACCINE CAUSED THEM TO GROW A SIXTH TESTICLE"
My heartfelt plea to anyone who supports either of the Weinstein Bros is: please stop. They don't deserve your patronage. They are griftpilled tinfoil take merchants who LARP as reasonable and science-minded intellectuals.
Why do I bother publicly denouncing the Weinsteins? Because they style themselves as sensible, reasonable, antitribalist voices—the very thing that is underserved in media—yet discredit and subvert that approach with everything they do. This matters to me.
Stalin, a campfire companion, once lent me his ear as I, inspired by the flames caressing my smores into a perfect bronze, regaled him with tales of how I burned political enemies alive.
MFers will tell you I idolize the man. That is flatly false. Is there a shrine to Stalin in literally every room in my house? Yes, but that is because I am a furniture minimalist and I had to use the empty space for something.
The vaccines have obliterated Covid in our country. What thanks do they get? IDW reactionaries masquerading as objective thinkers drumming up brainless propaganda campaigns against them.
Seeing a lot of hot takes on this. Mine is lukewarm by comparison.
I think content that is packaged in the garb of, and aiming for, *persuasion* should be very careful not to take its rhetorical cues from academic/activist spaces.
A lot of what this says about society's structural racial dynamics is correct and innocuously so. The idea that whites—their customs, prerogatives—have functioned like a kind of default in society, and unwittingly perpetuating this impedes and even harm nonwhites, is easy to get.
The problem with offerings like this is they operate with a braindead incapacity to grasp how the presentational decision to build out this message via the frame of demonizing "whiteness" is hugely inimical to the very cause being championed.
Isn’t a core concern over “cancel culture” the idea that failure to conform to “woke orthodoxy” carries with it significant professional penalties and is not just a matter of “being called names”?
This tweet either (a) denies this more serious component of cancel culture, in which case we shouldn’t worry so much about it, or (b) is troublingly insensitive to its real costs, which renders it useless as a piece of advice.
I think the advice in the initial tweet is generally good, but I'm poking at it a bit because I'm mounting an internal critique: the advice is somewhat in tension with a view of cancel culture as constituting an intolerable threat to people's livelihoods and reputations.