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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

I recommend everyone read this short article about how and why white people push back on any discussion of racism. I've been saying this here (and lots of other places) less eloquently for many years. This is easily the best piece on racism I've read since college and I already bought the book.

https://www.newyorker.com/books/page...ronting-racism

TM

This sounds familiar:

“The most effective adaptation of racism over time,” DiAngelo claims, “is the idea that racism is conscious bias held by mean people.” This “good/bad binary,” positing a world of evil racists and compassionate non-racists, is itself a racist construct, eliding systemic injustice and imbuing racism with such shattering moral meaning that white people, especially progressives, cannot bear to face their collusion in it.