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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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He is being unfair to her. He's focusing entirely on a few of the points on which she sounds loony and ignoring the main points. I love the guy, but this was more hit job than serious assessment of her book. (Still, where he takes her [or anyone] to task, his bon mots are fucking hysterical. Cat can wield a hell of a pen.)
Calling Taibbi, whose other books (including one called
I Can't Breathe about the Eric Garner killing) and articles total probably 1000 pages on police brutality a racist isn't unhelpful. It demonstrates how cheap that accusation has become. People throw it out there without even thinking about it anymore.
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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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I think the book is for white people because black people already know everything in it. They live it.
"Centering" just seems dumb corporate-speak.
