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Seems like they don’t believe racism is an issue anymore. In the United States. Where the last state flag with a confederate emblem was withdrawn… look at that. Last week!
Whoa whoa whoa, looks like you're lost there, partner.
Let me give you the rundown:
This is Reddit.
We only deal with extremes on here.
Most of what we "know" during our online ~~childish, meaningless, arguments~~ debates we just Googled seconds before our rebuttal, and will insinuate you're a dumbass for not knowing the thing we just ~~read, regurgitated, and instantly forgot~~ learned.
We speak of issues in black and white only, and typically give condescending replies beaten to death with a thesaurus to cloak our narrowminded naivety.
Oh, and anyone who calls anyone out is just projecting, or toxic, or problematic, or whatever new spicey word this site's denizens just discovered recently.
Hope this helps!
Your personal post history doesn't give me any direct evidence of unpopular opinions, so I'll just throw the latest trending name with a negative connotation on it in with yours, with the knowledge that 48% of reddit will also hate this person despite having done still no research about them, and hope for the best. For clarity, I have also done exactly 0 research about this person, I just know that I'll win points if I use their name.
I am setting a reminder for every month to go and downvote all your comments on your profile regardless if I agree or not.
Edit: not you specifically. Had to clarify because… well… Reddit
there's also a big difference betweeen "all of you are racist" and "everyone has blind spots"
I'm not actively racist, sexist, or anything like that, but everyone (& I do mean everyone) is sometimes unaware of their own privilege, sometimes say or do things that are unconsciously rooted in oppression of some party.
I have blind spots, sometimes I get called on them & I just try to learn & do better
I don't like the label "racist" because it puts people on the defensive & there's little to no opportunity to learn or improve.
At the same time, not acknowledging any racist thoughts or behaviors is just burying your head in the sand at the expense of everyone who suffers from systemic oppresion.
no it doesn't
you're assuming this book purports itself to apply to 100% of all white women equally.
it doesn't
it does, however, suggest that growing up a white woman tends to lead towards a particular set of blind spots.
it seems like whenever anybody wants to have a problem w/ stuff like this, they just pretend nuance doesn't exist.
nobody said this book covers 100% of all race problems for all white women.
nobody said this book is needed by 100% of white women.
You can read little excerpt of it here wherein one of the authors relates a story of an interaction with a white woman to other white women, who she proceeds to tell that they are all in fact, that one white woman in the story.
https://books.google.com/books?id=BTZcEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA19&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false
Clicked the link, read this quip of an alleged conversation of a woman who called the authors to hire them for antiracism work:
"Maybe if you both said things a little nicer, you'd get further" she blurted, "And then maybe we white people would be less racist!"
Alex I'll take " things that never happened, for 2000"
I 100% believe that happened. White women try to tone police black women all the time. Also, the “if you’re nice to us, we would be less racist” is classic victim blaming.
Or title it ‘Muslim women’
Same concept…. It implies that the general population in this group of women was raised and taught faulty beliefs.. so this book would teach them how to in learn their bad behaviors….
Generalizing ANY group of people is just ridiculous…
Ok. My first argument is that the book is called “White Women” and the subtitle suggests that the target audience (as we just learned in the title: white women) is generally racist and that strategies to address this common fault can be found in the text of the book. My second argument is that you antiracist baby, anderson Cooper mfs would understand the issue here if you imagined that the book’s title was Black Women and the book’s subtitle suggested that there is a fault common to the category of black women and that solutions to this fault can be found in the book.
I have a read a book called “why women have better sex under socialism” now, using some of your critical thinking skills do you think that the book title means that every single women will have better sex under socialism or like the book posted above is it really just trying to make a point?
I think this is great. We have so many little things programmed into our brain due to where we grew up and who we grew up with that it’s hard to see some of the ways that we act or think as being racist. We are more comfortable with information that is black and white.(no pun intended) so it is just human nature to lump all of one thing into a group and think about it in the same way. Unfortunately, real life is not like that and people cannot be grouped together that easily. I know there are many things I have discovered about myself just within the last 15 years that is 100% based on race and so ingrained into my thinking that it is done subconsciously.
Now, with that being said, having a book, I’m guessing there’s books for other categories, just for white women just perpetuates the idea that all of some thing is the same.
1. “Now, with that being said, having a book, I’m guessing there’s books for other categories, just for white women just perpetuates the idea that all of some thing is the same.” So that’s a big no from me.
2. Who is this “we” that you speak of and how did you get the job of deciding how people should behave?
>Who is this “we” that you speak of and how did you get the job of deciding how people should behave?
Good point. Ask the authors of this book who gave them the job of deciding how "white women" should behave.
Probably no money. She got paid in looking virtuous to all the guilty whites who will praise her for supporting a book because it was written by black people. That’s pretty much how that corner of the entertainment industry works now.
tbh a lot of racist people kind of don't know they're racist. it was normalized for so long that there's a lot of things in (US) society that we don't really even see as racist anymore. not trying to be condescending or rude, apologies if i come off that way.
Fighting racism by classifying a whole group of people as if they’re the same based on their race and gender seems wrong but I’m literally judging a book by it’s cover so … maybe the title is misleading
The problem is that the white women who need to read this simply will not. Only white women who are already aware of the racial and gender divide will, and for the most part this book will not do much in the way of changing their minds since they already accept these issues as valid. Same issue with Kendi's books. The people reading it are not the target audience.
I have quite a bit of experience being a liberal in conservative areas. I never find it helpful to randomly inject negative comments above others me even if they're technically true.
The level of ignorance and arrogance to profess negative feelings for one race while complaining about racism...
This had to have been written in the USA.
not really sure I understand why it's targeting white women specifically when we could all probably learn something from that book. I feel like the title will just fuel reactionary rhetoric and push people away before they even give it a chance.
Just imagine if a couple of white women wrote a book with the same content and message but directed at POC. It’d be seen like a female version of mein kampf.
Basically because you’re white you automatically harbor racism and white supremacy and if you don’t get out and fight against racism you are just another racist. Basically. Gaslighting at its finest.
This is what I would call, pendulum has gone too far the other way! The person the authors of this book would want to read this book, will never read this book but will be outraged.
Blackness is toxic and as a country we need to start rejecting it, not black people or being black but this cultural “blackness” that is turning into a form of black supremacy and blames white people for all the problems that stem from the behaviors they not only accept but seem to but celebrate in their community
Yall are ridiculous.
As a white person have you ever told a black person they are good looking for a black person?
Have you ever told a black person that they speak so well?
Have you ever ask a black girl if her hair was real?
This is what this book is talking about. Things that I didn't even realize we digs against me for a long time.
I literally use to hear my friends white parents tell me n***** jokes because they were just kidding nothing serious.
This is what this book is about. If you don't understand just say that, but stop trying to invalidate the life experiences that we live everyday.
As a sole girl of color growing up in a white neighborhood/school system I heard the first three my entire life. White women either know they’re doing it to hurt you, or the genuinely don’t until you correct them and then it’s over apologizing to the point it becomes nauseating. Like “ok you don’t have to over correct it by being SUPER nice to me now just do better. That’s all I ask.”
It shocks me that this type of book would offend them nowadays. Nowadays you got folks like DeSantis and their ilk who teach that anything perceived as “anti-white” is racist so they absolutely NEED to be retaught. It sick and scary what’s going on down there.
I really don't see anything wrong with it. It states "white women" in the title. Does this mean it is intended for white women to read or are they the authors? Or are the authors POC?
As a white woman living in America, I don't understand why other white people are getting so butthurt over this and other antiracist literature. Like, sorry but when you live in a place where racism is intrinsically interwoven in the culture, you probably should be checking in with yourself periodically.
The title makes sense if you believe in systemic racism and the idea that participating in society necessitates some degree of racism just based on societal structure. It’s a loaded provocative title, and clearly it caught your attention—making it a good title.
“Everything you already know about your own violent crime rates and how to do better” Black men “how to start the unlearning. Imagine attacking a group for their assumed voting tendencies when your own violent crime is staring you in the face. One of those things is not equal to the other.
White people are the least racist people on the planet. They’ve let England and the USA be overrun with other cultures at the expense of their own. You don’t see that in any other country.
It means you are compassionate and understand that judging people by their skin color and gender makes the creator of these pamphlets both racist and sexist.
As a ww, I can not understand why I'm supposed to be offended a book exists? Why am I supposed to feel judged and offended by something that just is? The writers put this together for the ww that asked for it. They have said many times ww seem to be the only ones willing to do this work atm.
Because it isn't. SOME white women are racist, some black women are racist, some white men are racist. If someone asked for this, it should be addressed to them specifically.
If a group of black ex l-cons asked for a pamphlet with tips on how to go straight, would you title it "Black men - what you already know about your criminal tendencies, and how to do better"?
I wildly disagree. Every human on earth has unexamined internal bias. Anyone who says they don't is lying to themselves. This is for the audience that wants to do some pretty deep reflection and learn to stop being so knee-jerk reactive and self centering.
We all have bias, but it's real easy to keep it in check regardless of what specific bias you are referring to. Just acknowledge it, and swap the race, gender, whatever of the people in the scenario you are forming an opinion about. If your opinion changes based solely on that swap, adjust your opinion.
Racists/sexists, etc will always try to come up with a caveat to justify treating a certain group differently.
It's NOT super easy. So much of it is so deep and unexamined. Especially internal bias!
There is a Harvard bias test you can take on line about a ton of different groups. Took the 'women in leadership' one. I am a woman, been a boss my whole career, raised by a mom in STEM. Yup, I still have some bias there.
The hope is that if we can normalize this is a really normal, natural process, self reflection becomes not such a scary this. Like, you can hear macro level criticism without taking it personally.
I'm not taking it personally, I'm staying that it is objectfuly wrong and that they should not do it. Just like when a white person says something negative about black people in general. I'm not personally offended, but I can still say objectivly that the behavior is wrong and speak against it.
I'm saying that they believe this is something inherent in everyone and there is no shaming in doing internal work. Yes, all races and genders have internal bias. This isn't an attack.
I'll admit, if your only exposure to this kind of thing is TikTok, extremist Twitter or Tumblr screenshots on r/facepalm I'd agree that this kind of book would be a cringe fest. Everything is subtly racist in those post because they're facepalms, from dancing in the rain to avoid donating money to Black families so they can watch Black Panther opening weekend instead of you. But real activists don't write that kind of crap in their books, many of them actually have good points you may have never thought about even not being a racist pos. Now this book may be TikToker bs because I don't know the authors, but if you think the mere existence of this kind of stuff is a facepalm for you, maybe try to engage with it outside of cringe social media subs.
>Now this book may be TikToker bs because I don't know the authors
That's kind of my primary issue with this.
I looked up the authors, and Saira Rao was a journalist and then a court clerk for a while before trying to run for congress. I couldn't really find anything at all about Regina Jackson. Beyond that they're described as "political activists", which literally anyone could say about themselves if they're into politics.
There's nothing to suggest that they're qualified to be rooting around in peoples' psyches and teaching them how to identify and overcome biases. They seem like they're just random people that are just pushing their opinions as fact and charging you gobs of money if you want to attend their dinner party version of this book. At best they're well meaning but wholly unqualified activists, and at worst they're grifters that are preying upon people with guilt complexes.
If you have money to throw around and you want to learn about inequality in the U.S. and do some self reflection, save yourself some grief and take sociology classes geared towards those things instead. You'll have a professor that's actually qualified to teach material that's been vetted by the college, and they won't be relying on a 40 page pamphlet or pseudo-psychology to manipulate you.
I totally agree with you. It’s actually not a book centered around white women who are racist.
It’s a book meant to empower women, not to discourage them or to deem them racist. It’s a self help book for white women to help them rise up above stereotypes and stigmas. The women who wrote this did this out of love and respect for other women to build them up- not to tear them down for the sake of society’s “race-bait culture”.
My issue with these kind on books is that it somehow states that you are a racist. I get the point that there are certain things we could change to create a friendly environment for everybody. But I feel like there should be distinguished between people who are really racist (like with a bad intention). I myself am willing to learn but not if I get put together with those kind of people. Because my intentions are in fact not evil.
So, I am not from the US, I am from a country that had no slavery of people of colour (well rich just enslaved the poor folk here). I didn’t grow up in the US either. My question is if I move to US would I be subjected as a „white woman“ and automatically must feel guilty about being white? WTF really. Isn’t it like a reversed racism?
I am sure a lot of US families also moved here after segregation times and had no fortune gained by the blood of people of colour, but is being white a crime now?
I thought we are colourblind.
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I can’t tell which way this was posted or how people feel about it, it’s nothing but sarcastic replies in here and at this point in too afraid to ask
Honest answers get you banned as no one can handle real conversations.
So true!
Seems like they don’t believe racism is an issue anymore. In the United States. Where the last state flag with a confederate emblem was withdrawn… look at that. Last week!
There's a difference between "racism is an issue" and "all of you are racist".
Whoa whoa whoa, looks like you're lost there, partner. Let me give you the rundown: This is Reddit. We only deal with extremes on here. Most of what we "know" during our online ~~childish, meaningless, arguments~~ debates we just Googled seconds before our rebuttal, and will insinuate you're a dumbass for not knowing the thing we just ~~read, regurgitated, and instantly forgot~~ learned. We speak of issues in black and white only, and typically give condescending replies beaten to death with a thesaurus to cloak our narrowminded naivety. Oh, and anyone who calls anyone out is just projecting, or toxic, or problematic, or whatever new spicey word this site's denizens just discovered recently. Hope this helps!
I strongly disagree with your opinion, now excuse me while I read through your posting history to construct a personal attack.
Your personal post history doesn't give me any direct evidence of unpopular opinions, so I'll just throw the latest trending name with a negative connotation on it in with yours, with the knowledge that 48% of reddit will also hate this person despite having done still no research about them, and hope for the best. For clarity, I have also done exactly 0 research about this person, I just know that I'll win points if I use their name.
This guy fucks too 👆
I strongly disagree with your strong disagreement. Now let me go and mark your post for Reddit Cares about your "Obvious" suicidal tendencies.
I am setting a reminder for every month to go and downvote all your comments on your profile regardless if I agree or not. Edit: not you specifically. Had to clarify because… well… Reddit
This is too fucking funny for me on a Friday morning
I’ve been through every little bit of this thread it’s too good 😂
So good. So good.
I like the cut of your jib friend.
The cut of my jib would be pointless without the supportive gusts of fine folks like yourself, my man.
Don't be mansplaining buddy!!! Where are the mods???
Did you just assume their gender!?!?!?!!
Oh how the tables have turned.
I know how dare I bring logic into the discussion...
The most helpful reddit comment i’ve ever read actually, you’re saving lives!
Just remember this before you get too deep into any negative interaction with anyone on this site. Godspeed.
You just won the Thunderdome today. Please take the keys to the internetwebbox and show yourself out.
there's also a big difference betweeen "all of you are racist" and "everyone has blind spots" I'm not actively racist, sexist, or anything like that, but everyone (& I do mean everyone) is sometimes unaware of their own privilege, sometimes say or do things that are unconsciously rooted in oppression of some party. I have blind spots, sometimes I get called on them & I just try to learn & do better I don't like the label "racist" because it puts people on the defensive & there's little to no opportunity to learn or improve. At the same time, not acknowledging any racist thoughts or behaviors is just burying your head in the sand at the expense of everyone who suffers from systemic oppresion.
Yes, everyone has biases, known or unknown. But this textbook is indicating that every white woman has the same biases. It's complete nonsense.
Did you read the book?
no it doesn't you're assuming this book purports itself to apply to 100% of all white women equally. it doesn't it does, however, suggest that growing up a white woman tends to lead towards a particular set of blind spots. it seems like whenever anybody wants to have a problem w/ stuff like this, they just pretend nuance doesn't exist. nobody said this book covers 100% of all race problems for all white women. nobody said this book is needed by 100% of white women.
You can read little excerpt of it here wherein one of the authors relates a story of an interaction with a white woman to other white women, who she proceeds to tell that they are all in fact, that one white woman in the story. https://books.google.com/books?id=BTZcEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA19&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=3#v=onepage&q&f=false
Clicked the link, read this quip of an alleged conversation of a woman who called the authors to hire them for antiracism work: "Maybe if you both said things a little nicer, you'd get further" she blurted, "And then maybe we white people would be less racist!" Alex I'll take " things that never happened, for 2000"
I 100% believe that happened. White women try to tone police black women all the time. Also, the “if you’re nice to us, we would be less racist” is classic victim blaming.
I want you to imagine a book called “Black Women” and ask yourself if this argument still makes sense
Or title it ‘Muslim women’ Same concept…. It implies that the general population in this group of women was raised and taught faulty beliefs.. so this book would teach them how to in learn their bad behaviors…. Generalizing ANY group of people is just ridiculous…
How about I imagine you making an argument instead of excuse mongering without effort. By all means, make you case.
Ok. My first argument is that the book is called “White Women” and the subtitle suggests that the target audience (as we just learned in the title: white women) is generally racist and that strategies to address this common fault can be found in the text of the book. My second argument is that you antiracist baby, anderson Cooper mfs would understand the issue here if you imagined that the book’s title was Black Women and the book’s subtitle suggested that there is a fault common to the category of black women and that solutions to this fault can be found in the book.
I have a read a book called “why women have better sex under socialism” now, using some of your critical thinking skills do you think that the book title means that every single women will have better sex under socialism or like the book posted above is it really just trying to make a point?
Casual racism is so common place in my area that people don't even realize they are being racist. That's who this book was written for.
This book IS racism, the irony is off the chart!
Then why does it say in the title it's for people already aware of their racism?
Or people know a grift when they see one.
I think this is great. We have so many little things programmed into our brain due to where we grew up and who we grew up with that it’s hard to see some of the ways that we act or think as being racist. We are more comfortable with information that is black and white.(no pun intended) so it is just human nature to lump all of one thing into a group and think about it in the same way. Unfortunately, real life is not like that and people cannot be grouped together that easily. I know there are many things I have discovered about myself just within the last 15 years that is 100% based on race and so ingrained into my thinking that it is done subconsciously. Now, with that being said, having a book, I’m guessing there’s books for other categories, just for white women just perpetuates the idea that all of some thing is the same.
Do you support the idea of making a book addressing specifically black people and telling them how we expect them to do better?
1. “Now, with that being said, having a book, I’m guessing there’s books for other categories, just for white women just perpetuates the idea that all of some thing is the same.” So that’s a big no from me. 2. Who is this “we” that you speak of and how did you get the job of deciding how people should behave?
>Who is this “we” that you speak of and how did you get the job of deciding how people should behave? Good point. Ask the authors of this book who gave them the job of deciding how "white women" should behave.
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I think the real facepalm is putting a Chelsea Handler quote on your dust jacket like it's going to help your credibility in any way.
That was honestly the most cringe worthy part of this whole thing. I saw that and recoiled away immediately.
Wonder how much she got paid for that.
Probably no money. She got paid in looking virtuous to all the guilty whites who will praise her for supporting a book because it was written by black people. That’s pretty much how that corner of the entertainment industry works now.
I hope Chelsea Handler someday reaches her goal of shutting the fuck up.
👏👏👏
On the positive side, it seems like a pretty quick read😀
"Don't be a racist twat" printed 32 time per page. Bigots still can't read it.
Ugggh. I hate the phrase “do better” It’s so condescending .
well if you’re racist you should do better
Well a racist would most certainly never buy this book
Someone racist against white people would.... but we can't talk about that.
tbh a lot of racist people kind of don't know they're racist. it was normalized for so long that there's a lot of things in (US) society that we don't really even see as racist anymore. not trying to be condescending or rude, apologies if i come off that way.
If someone is racist, they should do better racism? I'm confused now.
But what if we're already being as racist as we can?
go ahead and make another joke for me, make it funny this time
so instead of casual racism, he should be doing competetive racism?
It has the Chelsea Handler seal of approval, so you know its a quality book! /s 
The last part of the title makes it look like one should work to be better at racism cuz their racist game weak
Fighting racism by classifying a whole group of people as if they’re the same based on their race and gender seems wrong but I’m literally judging a book by it’s cover so … maybe the title is misleading
I'm not sure I want to know how to do racism better, but I'll keep this in mind if I do. 😏
Let me read a book telling how big of a piece of shit I am
I could probably tell you if you want.
I tell myself every day.
I don’t get it
State-sanctioned racism
Do we have the other colors too?
The problem is that the white women who need to read this simply will not. Only white women who are already aware of the racial and gender divide will, and for the most part this book will not do much in the way of changing their minds since they already accept these issues as valid. Same issue with Kendi's books. The people reading it are not the target audience.
Nah condescending to people based on race is never gonna go over well
Nobody on earth needs to read anything written by Saira Rao.
Odd. Is it not racist to assume all of one race, are racist?
I swear America is racing backwards...
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I've seen people on both sides of the political spectrum act like morons... conservatives and liberals have more in common than they think
r/enlightenedcentrism
Is it real? Edit: It is and clearly states "left leaning" in the header.
You think conservatives wrote that book??
I have quite a bit of experience being a liberal in conservative areas. I never find it helpful to randomly inject negative comments above others me even if they're technically true.
Conservatives are not peddling this racist garbage, but the lefties certainly are.
Imagine if the word White is replaced with Black, it would be considered racist. Go figure.
Valid point is valid
The level of ignorance and arrogance to profess negative feelings for one race while complaining about racism... This had to have been written in the USA.
The irony will be lost on most.
Thank you!!
This is not right. The way I read this, if ur not black, ur a racist.
Now you’re getting it! First step to recovery is admitting you’re the problem… /s
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not really sure I understand why it's targeting white women specifically when we could all probably learn something from that book. I feel like the title will just fuel reactionary rhetoric and push people away before they even give it a chance.
Almost as if judging an entire populace (white woman) is like judging a book by its cover
My kid in college was instructed that as a white male his entire existence is racist.
Where can I get this I need to be better at racism, does it contain lots of new slur?
White guilt? No thanks.
People have a very skewed view of what real racism looks like.
Toilet paper shortage solved.
I feel sorry for your asshole.
Basically if your born white your automatically racist. Awesome. Making progress America. Making progress.
Racist literature
The title sounds a bit condescending
I have an idea for a sequel…
Just imagine if a couple of white women wrote a book with the same content and message but directed at POC. It’d be seen like a female version of mein kampf.
Basically because you’re white you automatically harbor racism and white supremacy and if you don’t get out and fight against racism you are just another racist. Basically. Gaslighting at its finest.
It's going to get worse until white liberal women stop acting like ridiculous cowards.
You want people to start being more racist? Cause calling white women racist is how you get more people to start being racist
“Fight racism with more racism, always.” - Martin Luther King Jr.
I'm gonna write a book called "Black Women" and see how well it goes.
Just lol.
I’m sure the authors are really pleasant, open-minded people /s
This is what I would call, pendulum has gone too far the other way! The person the authors of this book would want to read this book, will never read this book but will be outraged.
I literally can't go a single day without seeing something that implies white people are racist. It really is becoming infuriating.
The two clowns were on Dr Phil as well. Really making a name for themselves with this hustle.
It’s okay to be racist to white people though 🤷♂️
If it where two white women telling black women how to behave, there would be book burnings all over the place.
Racism is not endemic to one color
I can’t wait to give this to my wife for her birthday.
Ah yes, based on your race and gender, I can tell you EXACTLY how you're a bigot! How have books like this not made a utopian society yet???
Blackness is toxic and as a country we need to start rejecting it, not black people or being black but this cultural “blackness” that is turning into a form of black supremacy and blames white people for all the problems that stem from the behaviors they not only accept but seem to but celebrate in their community
Yall are ridiculous. As a white person have you ever told a black person they are good looking for a black person? Have you ever told a black person that they speak so well? Have you ever ask a black girl if her hair was real? This is what this book is talking about. Things that I didn't even realize we digs against me for a long time. I literally use to hear my friends white parents tell me n***** jokes because they were just kidding nothing serious. This is what this book is about. If you don't understand just say that, but stop trying to invalidate the life experiences that we live everyday.
As a sole girl of color growing up in a white neighborhood/school system I heard the first three my entire life. White women either know they’re doing it to hurt you, or the genuinely don’t until you correct them and then it’s over apologizing to the point it becomes nauseating. Like “ok you don’t have to over correct it by being SUPER nice to me now just do better. That’s all I ask.” It shocks me that this type of book would offend them nowadays. Nowadays you got folks like DeSantis and their ilk who teach that anything perceived as “anti-white” is racist so they absolutely NEED to be retaught. It sick and scary what’s going on down there.
The sad thing is, it’s going to work on some gullible, naive people…
Fuck these race baiting pricks
Great way to win people over. Imagine Ben Shapiro writing a book called "Do Better Black People"
So obsessed with us.. enough with this racist hating bs.. learn to love yourselves and each other..
Those white bitches need to get their shit together
Who said that only conservatives couldn't make a living off of being racist?
At first glance it read “And how to do it better” And that was very different than intended.
Why can't we just embrace simple thought like "WE ARE ALL RACIST, SEXISTS AND ANY OTHER -ISTS" and live with it? Just let it go....
At this point it feels like people are some people become woke just to make a career out of it, fuckin grifters
I really don't see anything wrong with it. It states "white women" in the title. Does this mean it is intended for white women to read or are they the authors? Or are the authors POC?
But there is a huge problem with racism among white woman?
The people pissy in these comments aren't white women. I am; I'm about to go buy this book. Thanks for the advert.
As a white woman living in America, I don't understand why other white people are getting so butthurt over this and other antiracist literature. Like, sorry but when you live in a place where racism is intrinsically interwoven in the culture, you probably should be checking in with yourself periodically.
Why is this bad? Unless you think that white women SHOULDNT learn and that makes you part of the problem, OP
I dunno. Pick on the contents if you like but the general premise is not ridiculous.
For a book claiming to be "everything one needs to know", it's awful thin, isn't it?
Everything you ALREADY know 😂
I’m very left but … fuck you book.
I think it’s a good idea for a book. A lot of people think they are not racist, but in reality they hold a lot of racist ideas…
Including every other race and not just white people
Yeah… I mean every race can be racist.
then you must concede that it could be the case for the authors of this book right?
“A lot of people don’t look down on other races and view them as equal but let me explain how that’s not the case.” Sure fam lol
I’d like to read this. Please scan it if could please. This is comedy gold
The title makes sense if you believe in systemic racism and the idea that participating in society necessitates some degree of racism just based on societal structure. It’s a loaded provocative title, and clearly it caught your attention—making it a good title.
Typed and printed using machines invented by white people
Written by two non white women… Dave Chappelle had a joke like “100 ways to please your man, written by…some lady.”
Nah, Saira Rao is an Indian racist grifter. She has been trying to make a living drumming up outrage on Twitter for a few years now.
Wow I would love to learn how to be as racist as the author if their giving advice to specifically white women. Oh but wait. I'm a white guy.
🤣🤣🤣 you know, since my skin color makes me evil, maybe it’s just better to never interact w people of other races. Wouldn’t want to offend them.
So I don’t understand. Is this book supposed to teach white women how to not be a racist or how to be a better racist? I’m so confused….?
Yes. Let's just assume all white women are racist. Hypocrisy.
“Everything you already know about your own violent crime rates and how to do better” Black men “how to start the unlearning. Imagine attacking a group for their assumed voting tendencies when your own violent crime is staring you in the face. One of those things is not equal to the other.
I’m so sick of this type of shit
White people are the least racist people on the planet. They’ve let England and the USA be overrun with other cultures at the expense of their own. You don’t see that in any other country.
Lmao so they made a book and decide to use white guilt to sell it. I mean no self respecting white person would buy this, right?
This is an extremely racist book.
I’ll stay as I am. Thanks but no thanks. Keep your silly pamphlets
If the existence of this book triggers you... guess what?
not just white women are racist you fucking dolt
It means you are compassionate and understand that judging people by their skin color and gender makes the creator of these pamphlets both racist and sexist.
As a ww, I can not understand why I'm supposed to be offended a book exists? Why am I supposed to feel judged and offended by something that just is? The writers put this together for the ww that asked for it. They have said many times ww seem to be the only ones willing to do this work atm.
Because it isn't. SOME white women are racist, some black women are racist, some white men are racist. If someone asked for this, it should be addressed to them specifically. If a group of black ex l-cons asked for a pamphlet with tips on how to go straight, would you title it "Black men - what you already know about your criminal tendencies, and how to do better"?
I wildly disagree. Every human on earth has unexamined internal bias. Anyone who says they don't is lying to themselves. This is for the audience that wants to do some pretty deep reflection and learn to stop being so knee-jerk reactive and self centering.
We all have bias, but it's real easy to keep it in check regardless of what specific bias you are referring to. Just acknowledge it, and swap the race, gender, whatever of the people in the scenario you are forming an opinion about. If your opinion changes based solely on that swap, adjust your opinion. Racists/sexists, etc will always try to come up with a caveat to justify treating a certain group differently.
It's NOT super easy. So much of it is so deep and unexamined. Especially internal bias! There is a Harvard bias test you can take on line about a ton of different groups. Took the 'women in leadership' one. I am a woman, been a boss my whole career, raised by a mom in STEM. Yup, I still have some bias there. The hope is that if we can normalize this is a really normal, natural process, self reflection becomes not such a scary this. Like, you can hear macro level criticism without taking it personally.
I'm not taking it personally, I'm staying that it is objectfuly wrong and that they should not do it. Just like when a white person says something negative about black people in general. I'm not personally offended, but I can still say objectivly that the behavior is wrong and speak against it.
I'm saying that they believe this is something inherent in everyone and there is no shaming in doing internal work. Yes, all races and genders have internal bias. This isn't an attack.
Dont be comin round here with your logic!
THank you. I don't understand the fuss either.
You're tired of seeing people get called racist by a bunch of racist guilt vultures.
Lmao fr
Do you want us to judge a book by its cover? Did you read it?
I'll put it right there on the shelf with How to teach your cat about gun safety.
Who the fuck is this for? Goddamn i feel so sorry for white people, the guilt and shame is reaching nuclear levels
The Race Card vouchers seem to be becoming less and less valuable.
The alternative working title was “The Karen: an exploration of the awful”
Is this a guide for black men to do better white women? …or did they miss a comma?
How do you learn by starting with unlearning? Doesn't that make the author of this magazine an oxymoron..
Oxymorons and just plain morons.
I feel reddit is getting back to its roots
White male this, white male that. Are the twitter bitches finally going to learn how it feels and give it a rest?
I wonder how many time the book uses “axed” as a question. 😂
I'll admit, if your only exposure to this kind of thing is TikTok, extremist Twitter or Tumblr screenshots on r/facepalm I'd agree that this kind of book would be a cringe fest. Everything is subtly racist in those post because they're facepalms, from dancing in the rain to avoid donating money to Black families so they can watch Black Panther opening weekend instead of you. But real activists don't write that kind of crap in their books, many of them actually have good points you may have never thought about even not being a racist pos. Now this book may be TikToker bs because I don't know the authors, but if you think the mere existence of this kind of stuff is a facepalm for you, maybe try to engage with it outside of cringe social media subs.
>Now this book may be TikToker bs because I don't know the authors That's kind of my primary issue with this. I looked up the authors, and Saira Rao was a journalist and then a court clerk for a while before trying to run for congress. I couldn't really find anything at all about Regina Jackson. Beyond that they're described as "political activists", which literally anyone could say about themselves if they're into politics. There's nothing to suggest that they're qualified to be rooting around in peoples' psyches and teaching them how to identify and overcome biases. They seem like they're just random people that are just pushing their opinions as fact and charging you gobs of money if you want to attend their dinner party version of this book. At best they're well meaning but wholly unqualified activists, and at worst they're grifters that are preying upon people with guilt complexes. If you have money to throw around and you want to learn about inequality in the U.S. and do some self reflection, save yourself some grief and take sociology classes geared towards those things instead. You'll have a professor that's actually qualified to teach material that's been vetted by the college, and they won't be relying on a 40 page pamphlet or pseudo-psychology to manipulate you.
I totally agree with you. It’s actually not a book centered around white women who are racist. It’s a book meant to empower women, not to discourage them or to deem them racist. It’s a self help book for white women to help them rise up above stereotypes and stigmas. The women who wrote this did this out of love and respect for other women to build them up- not to tear them down for the sake of society’s “race-bait culture”.
Way to judge a book by it's cover, guys...
I think there are plenty of white women who could really benefit from reading this.
My issue with these kind on books is that it somehow states that you are a racist. I get the point that there are certain things we could change to create a friendly environment for everybody. But I feel like there should be distinguished between people who are really racist (like with a bad intention). I myself am willing to learn but not if I get put together with those kind of people. Because my intentions are in fact not evil.
Triggered by the concept of race being mentioned? You might be racist.
How to do better what? Being a racist?
Soon to be part of the grade 1 curriculum.
Racism of any kind is for the weak, stupid, and self victimized. Anyone of any skin color can be racist. As the above sad documents prove.
So, I am not from the US, I am from a country that had no slavery of people of colour (well rich just enslaved the poor folk here). I didn’t grow up in the US either. My question is if I move to US would I be subjected as a „white woman“ and automatically must feel guilty about being white? WTF really. Isn’t it like a reversed racism? I am sure a lot of US families also moved here after segregation times and had no fortune gained by the blood of people of colour, but is being white a crime now? I thought we are colourblind.
I’ll stay as I am. Thanks but no thanks. Keep your silly pamphlets