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obvious acts are just the tip of the iceberg of racism, we need to describe the invisible monolith.
Reni Eddo-Lodge • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller
It’s a politics where people of colour are never setting the agenda. Instead, they are relegated to constantly reacting to things and frantically playing catch-up. A white-dominated feminist political consensus allows people of colour a place at the table if we’re willing to settle for tokenism, but it clamps down if they attempt to create accounta
... See moreReni Eddo-Lodge • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller
We’ve borne witness to myriad dehumanizing narratives about disabled, particularly neurodivergent, people as “useless eaters” (a Nazi term) and “degenerates” (in the United
Ashley Shew • Against Technoableism: Rethinking Who Needs Improvement (A Norton Short)
When someone discriminates against a person in a racial group, they are carrying out a policy or taking advantage of the lack of a protective policy.
Ibram X. Kendi • How to Be an Antiracist
We should question the class prejudice that allowed white, poor victims to be ignored by the authorities in a way that would be less likely to happen to a middle-class white girl raised in Islington.
Reni Eddo-Lodge • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Despite all of the joys and teachable moments of living cheek to cheek, mixed-race children are not going to end racism through their mere existence.
Reni Eddo-Lodge • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Not altogether unironically, the axis that has replaced class in social theory is privilege. As we have noted, privilege is a concept most closely associated with the Theorist Peggy McIntosh, a well-off white woman, and the author of a 1989 essay called “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.”41 Influenced by critical race Theory, McInt
... See moreHelen Pluckrose • Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody
We don’t live in a meritocracy, and to pretend that simple hard work will elevate all to success is an exercise in wilful ignorance.
Reni Eddo-Lodge • Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller
Social Justice approaches that focus solely on group identity and neglect individuality and universality are doomed to fail for the simple reasons that people are individuals and share a common human nature.