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BryanLunduke on Dec 16, 2023 | hide | past | favorite



EDIT: maybe I get it now, the linked article seems to come from a webpage that doesn't like woke (?). I don't much either but to extrapolate and say the presentation, or at least the bits I read, is extremely racist, is maybe OTT. It's probably well intentioned at least.

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Where exactly are the racist bits? The whole thing is IMHO weird and dripping with the kind of self-flagellating patronizing wokeness which, to me, has nothing to do with fighting racism, but it's fairly mainstream.

But I gave up on reading this about half-way through, on the slide defining "whiteness" as some kind of toxic cocktail of ignorance and aggression. Oh and it spelled it as "WHITENE\nSS", maybe that was a clever pun?

What is wrong with being nice to people, not being presumptuous about it, and being sympathetic to their life circumstances, whatever category they fit into?


What’s the problem?

I’m white and can need to be reminded that I’m actually in minority on this planet, but act as I’m not. The text is pretentious, but I can take that.




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