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My 10 favorite books of 2024. Number 3.

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This book is outstanding and incredibly important.

Readers who enjoyed this might also enjoy Woke Racism by John McWhorter, School of Woke by Kenny Xu, The Canceling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Rikki Schlott, and the novel Victim by Andrew Boryga.
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...black doctor or lawyer and think about his race as opposed to his competence. That's hardly a benefit to people of color.

...school, don't go to college, or don't go to colleges selective enough to "need" racial preferences.

Neoracists depict black people as being in a state of constant emotional vulnerability and need. Robin DiAngelo even says that white people should never cry around black people because it might traumatize them further by evoking the cultural memory of false rape accusations --accusations that white women advanced against black men behind veils of tears.

Chronic victimhood is not a workable strategy for living a fulfilling life. Living a fulfilling life requires exercising whatever agency you have. But chronic victimhood undermines that agency. It tries to convince you that you're powerless, that victimhood is something that defines you--something that you can never get past.

...no economic power whatsoever--no ability to throw around their wealth so as to impose their will on society.

This would be hilarious if it weren't for the fact that they're not joking.

Western guilt (continued)

Western guilt (part 1 of 2)

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He's referring here to the 2016 film Hidden Figures, which was about black female mathematicians who worked at NASA in the early 60's. The film (falsely) portrays the women as having had to use segregated bathroom and dining facilities.

...torian put it, "More than any other African state, Dahomey was dedicated to warfare and slavery."

The 1619 Project, part 4. "For neoracists like Hannah-Jones, white participation in the fight against slavery and Jim Crow must be downplayed because whiteness must always and everywhere equate to evil."

The 1619 Project, part 3

The 1619 Project, part 2

The 1619 Project, part 1.

The author goes on to write: Think about what might have happened if the Tony Timpa case had gotten national media attention. Police departments might have begun prohibiting the practice of kneeling on people's necks. Had Tony Timpa's death received more attention and more outrage, there is a decent chance that George Floyd would still be alive today.

New York City.

Aruna Khilanani (continued).

Aruna Khilanani, part 1.

Neoracist medicine (continued)

...available in limited supply, the NY Department of Health released official guidelines for who could receive them. Those guidelines included non-whites but required that white people have a separate medical condition or risk factor in order to receive them. To what extent these guidelines were actually followed is another question. But the mere fact that guidelines for distributing medicine were issued on racial lines is concerning.

(Continued)..."Socially disadvantaged" appeared to be a race-neutral category with eligibility requirements related to total assets and income, but in reality one had to be "socially disadvantaged" (and therefore non-white) in order to qualify as "economically disadvantaged."

Imagine Jeong had tweeted about the joy she gets from being cruel to black people, or if she suggested that black people be kept underground like groveling goblins. There can be little doubt that analogous tweets about black people--or probably any non-white group--would've gotten her fired. But her tweets expressed hatred and hostility toward white people, so she wasn't fired. The NYT excused her racist tweets and continued supporting her.