Reddit reviews What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy Revised Edition (Counterpoints Book 497)
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Great post, there is a lot of interesting and valuable stuff in here and I am very glad that you and the rest of the mods took a very explicit stance on the matter!
One thing that stood out to me is this part:
>To be absolutely clear, none of what I have written should be interpreted to mean that white people are inherently evil. It should also not read as a long-winded expression of hatred towards white people on my part.
Race is such a critical concept and a highly loaded topic and I applaud you for raising this issue, while on the other hand I couldn't help but feel a bit sad that this had to be said, though I competely understand. I found that with racism and sexism in white people and men, there is one pretty common reaction that eventually comes up in any discussion, which is that pointing out someone's privilege does not mean that this person has it easy and I think a lot of white and/or male fragility is exactly due to this reaction. I think the clearest explanation of privilege I came across was to define privilege as an absence of struggle in one domain. Being a white man does not mean you have an easy life - it means that on top of the struggles you may face, you don't face the struggle of being discriminated against because of your race (or gender in certain aspects) in most cases.
If I might make one suggestion, I'd highly suggest Robin DiAngelo's book What Does It Mean to Be White?: Developing White Racial Literacy to anyone interested in the topic of racism. While her book White Fragility focuses mostly on, well, white fragility and I can't recommend enough, I found What Does It Mean to Be White? to be a great introduction and basis for the topic. It is like a handbook that she developed through her years of leading antiracist workshops and covers nearly all aspects (though for the experienced reader it might be a bit reductive in some parts) of racism in a highly readable manner.