Best discrimination & racism books according to redditors

Charb, the late director of Charlie Hebdo killed in the terrorist attack back in January, published the following:

Open Letter: On Blasphemy, Islamophobia, and the True Enemies of Free Expression

It's a truly remarkable book, and very short. I recommend it warmly.

PS to the mods: this isn't a referral link afaik

Ill be honest, none of the whole "gaming journalism" thing is why Im a KiA supporter. Ive always been a gamer, but Ive never followed any sort of gaming media or journalism aside from Thoorin's videos in League of Legends.

I dont buy triple-A titles outside of Blizzard games. I dont own a PS3, PS4, XBox 360, or Xbox One. I have a Wii because of Xenoblade (and I think I bought one of the Zeldas), Ill get a Wii U for the next Xeno game. None of the journalist shit affects me much because I already dont use their sites.

Its the censorship, the SJW post-modernist bullshit, the lying, the professional victims, the way it spills over into Wikipedia lacking neutrality. Its the way that I, just some random guy who goes to work, goes running, and plays video games, am blamed as a misogynist shitlord just for being a white cis male who is willing to discuss both sides of an issue. Its the way that white upper class people dictate to women and minorities about how they are doing all this FOR THEM, unless those women and minorities disagree in which case they are internalized misogynists (Please Stop helping Us). Its the way that being an egalitarian makes me a misogynist in their eyes, and a racist, and probably other things as well.

THATS the shit that pushes me to this "side".

Charb, who was killed in the attack and was the CH editor, wrotes a book on the rises of Islam which was published after his death:

Open letter: On blasphemy, Islamophobia and the true enemies of freedom of expression

This is a good start.

There is a fuck ton of books on the subject as well.

>Dude, when I worked at Barnes and Noble, a ton of old white dudes (always Republican/tea party types) would practically burst at the rim when coming up to the counter to buy Glenn Beck and Ann Coulter books to talk about any and all racial issues.

Omg, when I worked there, this one guy asked if we had this book in stock, which we didn't. I kept my facial expressions as flat as possible to dissuade him from trying to engage, because he was trying.

He tends to be less than charitable to those he disagrees with and can be extremely caustic in his writing. This is on top of some of the issues with his writings on slavery. (Here are a couple of online resources addressing this. His most controversial pamphlet is this: Southern Slavery: As it Was.) That should be a decent primer on some of the issues that you may encounter with DW and slavery.

There is a thin line between ignorance and racism. Asians from Asia are extremely ignorant about race issues and can also be very racist. No wonder why there are so many women who don’t see a problem with living together with openly racist Nazi men if they grow up in such an environment.

Those are good reading recs.

If one is still able to sleep after that, take a look at "The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right" by Daniel Levitas (2004.) Fun times.

https://www.amazon.com/Terrorist-Next-Door-Militia-Movement/dp/0312320418

You should read this book

I haven't read this book but it has been getting praise, "White Girl Bleed A Lot". I've also been seeing this too but I haven't read it either, "Please Stop Helping Us".

Can anyone here who has read these books give a quick review for these books?

I love the guy praising Riley's book to defend the "It's actually the government damaging the black community". Dismissing the system's endemic problems that disproportionately target black people — largely lead by motherfuckers saying the same thing as the OP — is more lazy libertarian reasoning; at any point, any societal problem can be solved by this mythical hands-off approach that just happens to favor maintaining the status quo.

Absolutely.

Heres a personal story on how true it is.

http://www.amazon.com/Please-Stop-Helping-Us-Liberals/dp/1594037256/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Articles:

The Black Family: 40 Years of Lies
by Kay Hymowitz, City Journal, The Manhattan Institute

Liberalism Versus Blacks by Thomas Sowell, Creators Syndicated.

Books:

The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy by Thomas Sowell.


Race & Economics: How Much Can Be Blamed on Discrimination? by Walter Williams.

Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed by Jason Riley.

"The Federal Housing Administration, or FHA, requires a credit score of at least 500 to buy a home with an FHA loan. A minimum of 580 is needed to make the minimum down payment of 3.5%. However, many lenders require a score of 620 to 640 to qualify"

So that means they still need established credit AND a down payment. In other words credit and at least a little wealth. As for adult schools, there are highly educated people working shitty low paying jobs because that's whats out there. This seems a lot like you want it to be a certain way, the by the boot straps, get educated, buy a house, etc. mantra, that's just not how it actually works. It is possible to be educated and hard working and to be stuck in poverty.

You're reducing a huge and complex issue into the Republican "Pull yourself up by your boot straps", they are just lazy explanation. Thing is, when you look at data and have also lived this shit first hand, you realize it is not so simple. You realize that there are plenty of educated hard working people that will never escape poverty, not because they don't try but because of how our society is structured and the various intersections of identities and social constructs. When exactly does a single parent raising 2 kids have time between their children's needs and their 2 jobs to go to school? These are the sorts of things people don't think about. What the reality is, not what they want it to be.

Americans want to believe that hard work will get you ahead in life, but we live in a oligarchy and it's about networking more so than skill sets and hard work. Hell corporate structure itself limits opportunity for promotion with its top down approach. 80 employees and 1 management spot, not a lot of opportunity. There's a multitude of influences playing out, and those influences affect one's ability to climb out of poverty. Also, those Adult School have been traditionally made for White people, most education opportunity throughout US History has been made to specifically assist Whites, not poor PoC.

The Meritocracy Myth - https://www.amazon.com/Meritocracy-Myth-Stephen-J-McNamee/dp/1442219823/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_img_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=0X1W94PHVX1MTDTXX4SF

Oligarchy Study - https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

Capital in the 21st Century - https://www.amazon.com/Capital-Twenty-First-Century-Thomas-Piketty/dp/1491591617

Because you not coming to Niece's birthday OF COURSE HAS TO BE AAAAALL ABOUT HERRR. There can be nooo other reason why you wouldn't come! You don't have a life, and neither does DH! You exist at Hellmark's behest, a-fucking-pparently.

You should send her this book back. C'mon, you know it'd be funny.

I don't know any papers...but this series of papers (read as "book") explains in detail how scapegoating of Muslims is used to control people.

I would imagine looking up subjects related to imperialism and colonialism might lead you in the right direction. France and Egypt, and Britain and India had imperial relations.

That's all I got off the top of my side.

I'm not a conservative, but "cutting holes in the social safety net" isn't the goal of the conservatives. Rather, they see that the social safety net is actively harmful, and often, believe that federal assistance is the worst way to effect benevolence unto the poor.

If it weren't for partisanship, we'd realize that both the liberals and the conservatives stated goals have merit, and are equally noble. Similarly, in practice, both are equally ignoble, and equally meritless.

That said, that conservatives have a different way of helping the poor than the one you prefer doesn't make them heartless.

This book might help understand their view:
http://www.amazon.com/Please-Stop-Helping-Us-Liberals/dp/1594037256

> Rather, they see that the social safety net is actively harmful, and often, believe that federal assistance is the worst way to effect benevolence unto the poor.

I'm British and a socialist, so while I can't speak to the efficacy of your specific social safety net I can say that desiring to see all such safety nets totally removed sounds pretty heartless to me. The assumption that the market fixes everything is demonstrably untrue and leaving the unfortunate at the mercy of a handful of benevolent philanthropists sounds highly unreliable. It could also be a smokescreen for "I don't care about them - I just want to pay less tax".

> If it weren't for partisanship, we'd realize that both the liberals and the conservatives stated goals have merit, and are equally noble

Can't speak for your American equivalents but here in Britain the noble sentiments of our political parties are much less interesting that the things they've actually done. Noble intentions are meaningless. Of course we'd all like to see an end to poverty, better schooling for everyone, etc, etc, but if your way of achieving those ends turns out to be suspiciously close to "letting the rich get richer while the poor get shafted" then I'm going to call shenanigans on your noble intent.

> This book might help understand their view: http://www.amazon.com/Please-Stop-Helping-Us-Liberals/dp/1594037256

Huh. So if American businesses could pay their workers at Chinese sweat shop levels then more black people would be employed? Forgive me for failing to see the altruism at work in that line of thinking. Alternatively you could all contribute a tiny fraction of a tiny fraction of your wages to pay for a better state education system that would help to enable a true meritocracy to exist.

I book I like is called "what white people who teach on the hood need to know" not exactly what your looking for but in the same lane.

https://www.amazon.com/White-Folks-Teach-Hood-Rest-ebook/dp/B00Z3E2LVO/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?keywords=what+white+folks+who+teach+in+the+hood&qid=1564178716&s=gateway&sr=8-3

He has an awesome book too

Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed

Yeah, that one's definitely on my "to read" pile.

RIP Charb

EDIT: btw, you linked to the original book on amazon.fr, but its worth pointing out to anyone reading this that an English translation (titled simply "Open Letter") has been published as well. Amazon.com link, Amazon.co.uk link

EDIT AGAIN: oh, and /u/pink_ego_box, I'm guessing you're not a native English speaker, so just so you know, the translation of "islamophobie" is "Islamophobia", not "islamophoby" ;).

Co-authored by David Horowitz. Here's another of his lol:
https://www.amazon.com/Progressive-Racism-David-Horowitz/dp/1594038597

It reminds me of Ben Cobley's The Tribe.

This got a bit long, but I'm a bit passionate about the issue and it frustrates me that the very people who lament a problem are enabling it because they think they are being "good" and "nice" even though it causes more problems than it could fix.

Sorry, that's simply wrong. You should try to read the FBI's uniform crime statistics. You have no idea just how wrong you are. Just take a look, you'll find out that you have been made a fool all this time and have been eating that propaganda up hook, line, and sinker. All you have to do is look at the stats for things you really can't honestly believe can contain any real discrimination like violent assaults, murders, rape, robbery, burglary, etc. It's not like cops are going to say "oh, he's one of those white males we like to treat better. Carry on with your raping and robbing, white male. We don't see any problems here."

Don't worry. I don't judge you. Just have an open mind and be willing to accept reality. As someone who used to be on the center left and was part of both the '08 Clinton and Obama campaigns, I can tell you shit is really not what you've been led to believe even if it is done with good intent. But you know what is said about good intent, right? It paves the bleeding heart soaked path to hell.

You have to also try to remove that chip on your shoulder you were given to immediately knee-jerk to an assumption that reality will be used to justify racism. It's really the left that assumes racism that is making these topics racist and about race and perpetuating the racial divide that does not need to exist if we just solve the problems. It is actually quite thoroughly paternalistically racist to, e.g., say that we need different usually lower standards for blacks than other "races". Why don't blacks deserve to be measured by the same standards that are then not subject to diminishing their achievement? Why do we need to have lower standards for blacks that then leads to lower outcomes that then only contributes to negative and poor perceptions of blacks? It's the deepest kind of racism that really even still exists and liberals don't even know how to realize it, let alone comprehend it.

My perspective is that people on the left are doing exponentially more harm acting and lying to themselves and the world by ignoring, covering up, and just plain lying about reality. You simply cannot fix or change something you aren't even willing to be honest or truthful about acknowledging. It's like I'm dealing with a world or hoarders. Have you ever seen that show? Where the hoarder is like "What, I'm collecting take out food containers with samples of their fine cuisine in its natural setting and really really really like a lot of cats. This is perfectly fine!" and you are just watching it like. O__O

As long as the left wants to coddle, make excuses, and enable nothing will ever get solved just the way it has not been solved over decades now. But I guess when you just want a subset of dependent blacks you really don't have an interest in providing them the dignity of equal standards and expectations. Because just as the benevolent racists of yesteryear, blacks need to be helped, right? It causes so much damage and across generations.

Many problems in our country that liberals lament could have been solved if self-righteous, selfish liberals would simply stop trying to help all just so they can feel good about themselves. The black community has every right to be held to the same standards and expectations that you are held to, those include not ignoring or rationalizing away the reality that the black community has a crime problem that can only be solved if responsibility is accepted ... and not just blame some bullshit about cops arresting more blacks ... PRECISELY because the black community has a crime and violence problem you simply want to ignore and sweep under the rug.

Yeah, i suppose having a cop arrest more minorities means that the males can father multiple children to multiple women. All the justice and education's fault.

Also their fault for dropping out of school.

I suggest you read this book.

http://www.amazon.com/Please-Stop-Helping-Us-Liberals/dp/1594037256

this is my personal best. (stole the pic, of course)

Also everyone should read this: https://www.amazon.com/Open-Letter-Blasphemy-Islamophobia-Expression/dp/0316311332

Please Stop Helping Us is a great book on this subject, and a pretty easy and entertaining read.

>Shit dude...do your homework.

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93% of blacks vote Democrat. 7% of a small minority of the total US population vote either Republican or 3rd party, mostly Republican. Blacks are well represented in the GOP all things considered.

Here are a few others.

Michael Steele, the first black leader of the RNC.

Jason Reilly, Wall Street Journal editorial board member and author of Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed

Allen West was a one term Congressman from Florida and the first black Republican Congressman from FL since Reconstruction. This man is hugely popular with the supposedly racist "tea party" wing of the party. For the record, I am not a tea partier.

Another book mentioned in this episode: 'Please Stop Helping Us' by Jason L. Riley http://www.amazon.com/Please-Stop-Helping-Us-Liberals/dp/1594037256

Thomas Sowell and others debunk the claims that women and blacks earn less in the marketplace due to discrimination. When they are compared on equal footing, it is found they are not discriminated against, and in some cases even earn slightly more. For example, unmarried women without children tend to earn a bit more than their male counterparts. What is affecting the average woman? Having children, obviously. If you thought that women, on average, should be earning equal wages, you were clearly not using your brain effectively, as bearing children is such an obvious and enormous cost.

There is a cost to conducting irrational practices in the marketplace (racism, sexism in hiring and in customer discrimination are the examples we are concerned with in this discussion). For example, bus companies wanted to give equal treatment to Blacks during the era of segregation in the U.S., as Black Americans were their biggest customers. They were forced to conduct costly (in opportunity), racist practices in order to comply with government segregation laws. Most people simply are not willing to pay the cost if they are racist, but I also think that most people aren't racist.

If we look at Asian Americans and Irish Americans who's ancestors also experienced severe discrimination, as well as Irish in the UK who's ancestors experienced slavery, we find they don't have the same problems Black Americans face. Blacks immigrants do better on average than their American counterparts. It is clear it is not discrimination at the employer which is the problem. It is a culture of victimization that has been built around them by liberals attempting to "help" them through horrendous government policies--most notably education that amounts to nothing and subsidies of bad behavior--which has lead to alarming rates of single parenthood (usually mothers) which has destroyed the future of these young children. It really needs to stop.

I looked it up - I'm slow on mobile - and his last name is Emdin. Here's the book http://www.amazon.com/White-Folks-Teach-Hood-Rest-ebook/dp/B00Z3E2LVO/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1455904288&sr=1-1&keywords=christopher+emdin I will give it a shot!

Maybe they read this book?

Racecraft!

Both of those can be done voluntarily, without the coercion.

Btw, most of the tax-theft money goes to the funding of wars and social programs that hurt people.

>extremely flawed

Explain Stanford's discrepancies.

Asians make up 17.6% of USC's population. Explain that - LA is one of the highest density Asian places in the United States.

You don't think students who apply to UCLA are going to also send in an application to USC?

Asians make up 10% of Claremont McKenna, 20% of Harvey Mudd,12.9% of Pomona, 18.3% of Scripps. Explain that.

Asians make up 11% of Pepperdine's population. Explain that.

The only private institution that does not discriminate against Asians is Caltech. Caltech prides itself as a merit based, race blind school, and does not practice affirmative action.

And we see in Caltech a 42% Asian student makeup.

Need more evidence?

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1594035822/ref=as_li_tf_til?tag=pragmom-20&camp=0&creative=0&linkCode=as1&creativeASIN=1594035822&adid=1EQANJJ2S3CHT99N027E&

Published by a Princeton professor.

It's incredibly misleading when people try to justify affirmative action by suggesting Asians only make up 5% of the population but are 20% representation in school. Well, they also make up something like 30-40% of the applicant pool.

>Additionally, the California schools are all public institutions, while most of the compared schools are private, which adds a whole new dimension of difference.

Right. The UCs are accountable to the public so they can't get away with bullshit so easily. That's why we see a REASONABLE number of Asians in the UCs (not too many; it's a proportionally fair amount), percentages very closely mirroring the applicant pool with differences of <5%, as obeying the laws of probability.

And everything I mention still ignores that on average Asian performance should be expected to be higher than other races given the average Asian household income is the greatest of all races in the United States ($14,000 per year higher than White Americans according to the US Census, which is a significant number - enough to buy you a world class tutor and plenty of college prep programs). Academic success and wealth are closely correlated (do I need to prove this? I'll let you google academics and wealth correlation and find out for yourself if you don't believe this) This is not even going into the speculative stuff, like the type of discipline and cultural values Eastern Asians hold in education.

This one looks promising.

Birthday gift?

http://www.amazon.com/Systemic-Racism-A-Theory-Oppression-ebook/dp/B00FDRB1Q2

And that is the erroneous argument that I am referring to. Have you ever listened to a black republican? Have you ever listened to a conservative explain their position? I'm not talking about who the liberal leaders, the so-called "main stream" media, and the typical black community want to point to. In all honesty, they are pointing you to the 1 to 2% fringe or twisting what people say. And don't get me started on when empirical facts are used and the person using it gets called racist.

Do yourself a favor. Look up Alfonzo Rachel. Look up the book "Please Stop Helping Us" and give it a read. With your argument, you honestly need your eyes opened to who you're labeling racist. If you actually listen to just the two men I just pointed you to have to say, it will start you on a journey that will tear down this facade that you have had built around you.

I've linked to her book which I used in the description, but here's a direct link https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1608462110/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_a2KRzbS4CAMY9

Ok. There's various degrees too. You got the weebo nerd/blerd or whatevs who's still awkward and weird. Then you have the type that doesn't mind being "white washed" or not having to appeal to black stereotypes, doesn't mind having republican/conservative values (think Thomas Howell) or guys like Jason Riley or Tommy Sotomayor.

Have you read Jason Riley's new book yet?

Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed

The ONLY thing you can truly do is stop making being a victim 'cool'. Hear me out:

White privilege exists in the same way sexism does: A very small microcosm of the total world. But, it is used as an excuse constantly.


When you create programs to help one type of person over another it just reaffirms this position and perception bends that way. Instead of people chanting that African American communities are more likely to be poor, and have higher unemployment because of white privilege, we need to instill the concept that if you work hard, and have motivation, that regardless of the street you live on, or if your parents are still together you CAN succeed! But freebies and assistance reaffirm that they NEED the help and can't help themselves.

this book "Please stop helping us" (written by a black man) is really an interesting read on the subject.