White Fragility
The Origins of Wokeness
paulgraham.comMe and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor
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Because you so greatly benefit from your whiteness, you work tirelessly to protect it. In a white supremacy culture like ours, not working tirelessly to dismantle it is the equivalent of working tirelessly to protect it. In other words, not acting is acting.
Saira Rao • White Women: Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better
And here’s the hard part. You can’t just decide fuck individualism, I’m blowing it up . You have to replace it with a better, more equitable story of who we are as a country and how we organize our society. Which, for a lot of people, would mean giving up a modicum of power. Liberal white people can loathe the effects of individualism and still ben... See more