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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop

It's not bad, but it didn't move me the way it moved you. What did you think was fantastic about it?

eta: I agree that white people are bad at discussing racism, in predictable ways. I think there's a lot of self-interest in it. I agree with what's said about the good/bad binary. But I don't think it's helpful to talk about how "society is set up", and I think it's wrong to say "that white progressives cause the most daily damage to people of color," even if they are often self-serving. And I don't think it's helpful to describe (not sure whether this is the reviewer or the author) white racism as "a pathogen that seeks to replicate itself" -- that constructs removes the agency and incentives the author has identified.

I am a lot less likely to defend white progressives in the post-Bernie era than I was in the pre-Bernie era. A lot of really bad shit went down there.

And it's not like Hillary's behavior as Obama passed her in the primaries wasn't kind of shitty already, but the Berners really embraced their white side, and still do.