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alexandrabree's review against another edition
1.0
Poorly thought-through social commentary on the race front. A mishmash of personal opinion and popular “wokeness”/virtue signaling (I hesitate to even say woke as there are too many definitions for a coherent definition.. but it's the most appt word I can think of) that is a front for socialism aka. Untested communism aka. Benevolent totalitarian dictatorship
I'm not going to lie and say I did more than skim through the book. I stumbled across this in university [the only segment I read through was presented as a paper]. Hence, that was on my reading list. Even my extremely left-leaning liberal professor was less than impressed and ripped the piece to shreds.
This is jumping on the bandwagon behind DeAngelo and Kendhi and the other con artists praying on people's good intentions, leveraging tragedies and historical unfairness [too the tune of original sin, martyrdom, self-flagellation, repentance confession, hail maries, and all the trappings of a new inquisitory religion]. It seems to be so easy to complain about “the system” and its “permanent or structural” problems while profiting from those systems. I doubt these authors have forsaken their phones, laptops, cars, clothes, etc. All proceeds from these books should HAVE to be donated to other non-published authors. After all, that’s how collective works right? the few work for the many? Equal in everything (mostly poverty, but whatever, right?)
This book glorifies ideals of utopia that look good on paper but resulted in the catastrophes in Cuba and Venezuela, completely ignoring how much good capitalism has done in the world, particularly the developing third world… this author is intentionally or unintentionally incredibly ignorant and with the power of google in the world this kind of foolishness almost has to be intentional by default. Hence, I freely give the labels of charlatan and grifter, con artist, and scammer.
I would recommend reading White Trash by Nancy Isenberg, which digs into how most systemic problems are problems of classism, poverty, and financial barriers of entry.
And/or
Time would be better spent reading a Thomas Sowell or Martin Luther King Jr Book
The gulag archipelago or man's search for meaning… hell reading some urban fantasy or chick lit would be time better spent.
I'm not going to lie and say I did more than skim through the book. I stumbled across this in university [the only segment I read through was presented as a paper]. Hence, that was on my reading list. Even my extremely left-leaning liberal professor was less than impressed and ripped the piece to shreds.
This is jumping on the bandwagon behind DeAngelo and Kendhi and the other con artists praying on people's good intentions, leveraging tragedies and historical unfairness [too the tune of original sin, martyrdom, self-flagellation, repentance confession, hail maries, and all the trappings of a new inquisitory religion]. It seems to be so easy to complain about “the system” and its “permanent or structural” problems while profiting from those systems. I doubt these authors have forsaken their phones, laptops, cars, clothes, etc. All proceeds from these books should HAVE to be donated to other non-published authors. After all, that’s how collective works right? the few work for the many? Equal in everything (mostly poverty, but whatever, right?)
This book glorifies ideals of utopia that look good on paper but resulted in the catastrophes in Cuba and Venezuela, completely ignoring how much good capitalism has done in the world, particularly the developing third world… this author is intentionally or unintentionally incredibly ignorant and with the power of google in the world this kind of foolishness almost has to be intentional by default. Hence, I freely give the labels of charlatan and grifter, con artist, and scammer.
I would recommend reading White Trash by Nancy Isenberg, which digs into how most systemic problems are problems of classism, poverty, and financial barriers of entry.
And/or
Time would be better spent reading a Thomas Sowell or Martin Luther King Jr Book
The gulag archipelago or man's search for meaning… hell reading some urban fantasy or chick lit would be time better spent.
kteq's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
A roadmap to coalition building, applicable across movements. 🍉
valebatti's review against another edition
4.0
"What white people can do next" is a short book but so dense of information. It leaves you with a lot of cause for reflection. Every white person should read it.
"The concept of a “white race” and a “black race” is not something that exists in nature; on the contrary, it is a socially engineered concept invented with a very specific intention in mind. That intention was racism."
"The concept of a “white race” and a “black race” is not something that exists in nature; on the contrary, it is a socially engineered concept invented with a very specific intention in mind. That intention was racism."
cloudss's review
informative
reflective
fast-paced
4.5
short and a good jumping off point. coalition building not only allyship good message. and saying something vs doing something difference from activism pre social media vs with social media. history parts well written and showing the difference between us and uk interesting. haven't seen it spelled out so clearly before.
lunaprotea's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
alidao's review
5.0
As someone who grew up in Ireland it was nice to seeing it mentioned in particular .
I feel like it was a slightly different perspective than most books on racism I’ve read so I enjoyed it.
I feel like it was a slightly different perspective than most books on racism I’ve read so I enjoyed it.
emmaas_bookshelf's review against another edition
4.0
A great quick read that makes you think about more than just black vs white but rather the entire corrupt belief that is whiteness as it relates to colonialism and capitalism.