Minor Feelings: A Reckoning on Race and the Asian Condition
During this period the model minority myth was popularized to keep Communists—and black people—in check. Asian American success was circulated to promote capitalism and to undermine the credibility of black civil rights: we were the “good” ones since we were undemanding, diligent, and never asked for handouts from the government. There’s no discrim
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Tone policing in all these places is the constant judgment—or threat of judgment—on how BIPOC express themselves.
Layla F. Saad • Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
after several conversations with happiness experts and psychologists, I’ve cobbled together a tentative theory. We’re seeing the international transmission of a novel Western theory of mental health. It’s the globalization of Western—and, just maybe, American —despair.
Work in Progress, The Atlantic • America’s Top Export May Be Anxiety
type of depression I had diagnosed in cases of young patients suffering from what I called “unemployment neurosis.” And I could show that this neurosis really originated in a twofold erroneous identification: being jobless was equated with being useless, and being useless was equated with having a meaningless life.