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Originally Posted by Adder
Was going to share that. I mean, I guess I already knew that Brocialists have a penchant for denial of non-class oppressions, but I was still surprised how racist he was willing to be.
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I haven't read White Fragility, so I can only assume he is being unfair about what it says, but it feels like a long exercise is intentionally missing the point. I'm not sure that calling him racist helps much -- it creates more heat than light.
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Meanwhile, there's other criticism of White Fragility going around for centering whiteness, but I think that's actually part of the value of it, in that it's a book for white people.
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I don't know what "centering whiteness" means, but I do suspect that Taibbi is on to something when he points to the use of such jargon in the book. Also, I'm not sure why a book would be "for white people."
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Meanwhile, not to pretend it's any kind of unusual recommendation, but I also found How To Be Antiracist worthwhile.
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You lost me at the title, but I don't do self-help. I just finished an excellent history of the Lakota, a book by a Finnish historian about the tribe's history from the 1600s until Little Big Horn (and thereafter in a much more summary way). Really, really good.
The NYT agreed.
