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Reddit mentions of Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller

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Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller
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Found 2 comments on Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The Sunday Times Bestseller:

u/Phineas_Godwinn · 6 pointsr/BlackPeopleTwitter

> The way privilege is defined in the "white privilege" context is that white people get unconscious advantages because the system identifies them a certain way because of their skin color.

I think this is a poor definition and more people should refer to the way privilege is described in "Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race".

Link to book as PDF here although I think you should support authors of this kind of information financially.

From the book:

> How can I define white privilege? It’s so difficult to describe an absence. And white privilege is an absence of the consequences of racism. An absence of structural discrimination, an absence of your race being viewed as a problem first and foremost, an absence of ‘less likely to succeed because of my race’. It is an absence of funny looks directed at you because you’re believed to be in the wrong place, an absence of cultural expectations, an absence of violence enacted on your ancestors because of the colour of their skin, an absence of a lifetime of subtle marginalisation and othering – exclusion from the narrative of being human. Describing and defining this absence means to some extent upsetting the centring of whiteness, and reminding white people that their experience is not the norm for the rest of us. It is, of course, much easier to identify when you don’t have it, and I watch as an outsider to the insularity of whiteness. I coveted whiteness once, but I knew in the back of my mind that conning myself into assimilation would only ever make me a poor imitation of what I would never be